Autonomous Driving Systems Intern - Perception & Planning

Isuzu North America; Plymouth (MI); On-site; USD 28,000 - 41,000; Part time

Job summary

Isuzu Technical Center of America in Plymouth, MI seeks an Autonomous Driving Intern to support the Advanced Engineering team in developing, integrating, and validating Level 4 autonomous commercial vehicles. The intern will contribute to perception, planning, and control algorithm development, system integration, and simulation testing environments.

You will collaborate with internal teams and external partners to design, implement, evaluate system components and deployment workflows in a

Qualifications

• Master’s degree or above in Robotics, Computer Science, Mathematics, Electronic Engineering, or related fields.
• Expert-level candidates should demonstrate technical leadership and/or publications in top-tier academic conferences.
• GPA of 3.6 or higher on a 4.0 scale.
• Prior industry experience in robotics or autonomous driving is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Research, develop, and iterate visual perception algorithms for autonomous driving, including object detection, recognition, image segmentation, and occupancy grid (Occupancy).
• Design, develop, and optimize planning and control algorithms, including behavior planning, trajectory planning, and vehicle control, ensuring safety, comfort, and robustness.
• Demonstrate strong system-level thinking, understanding the interactions and dependencies across perception, planning, control, localization, and vehicle interfaces.
• Perform end-to-end system integration and testing, from simulation and SIL/HIL to on-road vehicle testing, to identify, diagnose, and resolve real-world driving issues.
• Lead root-cause analysis of on-road failures, especially in complex or long-tail scenarios, and drive systematic fixes across multiple modules rather than local optimizations.
• Support deployment of autonomous driving systems on real vehicles, continuously improving performance through closed-loop validation and iterative refinement.

Skills

C++

Python

Data structures & algorithms

Education

Master’s degree or above in Robotics, Computer Science, Mathematics, Electronic Engineering

Tools

ROS

ROS2

NVIDIA Isaac Sim

PyTorch

OpenCV

GitHub

CUDA

TensorRT

Job description

Isuzu Technical Center of America in Plymouth, MI seeks an Autonomous Driving Intern to support the Advanced Engineering team in developing, integrating, and validating Level 4 autonomous commercial vehicles. The intern will contribute to perception, planning, and control algorithm development, system integration, and simulation testing environments.

You will collaborate with internal teams and external partners to design, implement, evaluate system components and deployment workflows in a