Autonomous Driving Real-Time ML Research Intern

Honda Ri; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 34,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Honda Research Institute USA in Mountain View, CA is offering a Research Intern position focused on real-time end-to-end autonomous driving. You will work on training and distilling generative and autoregressive models to enable real-time inference within autonomous driving systems.

The internship involves hands-on research, implementation in PyTorch/TensorFlow, and publication of results at top conferences or journals. Duration: 3 months starting May 2027, based in Mountain View.

Qualifications

• Enrolled in a Ph.D. program in Robotics, Electrical/Computer Engineering, Machine Learning, or a related field.
• Research experience in machine learning, decision-making, motion planning, and robotics.
• Experience with ML frameworks such as PyTorch or TensorFlow.
• Excellent programming skills in Python.

Responsibilities

• Train and distill a generative and an autoregressive model for the end-to-end autonomous driving task.
• Apply model adaptation techniques to achieve real-time inference capability.
• Benchmark the developed algorithm's performance in closed-loop simulations.
• Publish findings in a top-tier conference or journal.

Skills

Python

PyTorch

TensorFlow

ML

Robotics

Education

Ph.D. student

Job description

Honda Research Institute USA in Mountain View, CA is offering a Research Intern position focused on real-time end-to-end autonomous driving. You will work on training and distilling generative and autoregressive models to enable real-time inference within autonomous driving systems.

The internship involves hands-on research, implementation in PyTorch/TensorFlow, and publication of results at top conferences or journals. Duration: 3 months starting May 2027, based in Mountain View.