Embodied AI Research Intern: Autonomy & Multimodal ML

General Motors Corporation; Sunnyvale, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 132,000 - 163,000; Full time

Job summary

General Motors Corporation is seeking a 2027 Summer Intern in AI Research, Embodied AI, based in Sunnyvale, CA. The role blends machine learning, robotics, and autonomous driving, with hands-on experiments and collaboration across perception, planning, and systems teams.

The internship offers exposure to foundation models, multimodal learning, and world models, with mentorship and potential for research outputs such as publications or open-source contributions.

Qualifications

• Ph.D. student in ML/AI/CS/robotics or related field.
• Strong ML/DL understanding and ability to design experiments.
• Proficiency in Python and ML frameworks; ability to communicate findings.

Responsibilities

• Formulate research problems and develop prototypes for autonomy.
• Design experiments, ablation studies, and quantitative evaluations.
• Train and benchmark models on large datasets with distributed compute.
• Analyze model behavior, failures, and generalization; present findings.

Skills

Python

PyTorch

TensorFlow

JAX

AI/ML research

Experimental design

Communication

Education

Ph.D. in Machine Learning/AI/CS/Robotics

Tools

C++

Job description

General Motors Corporation is seeking a 2027 Summer Intern in AI Research, Embodied AI, based in Sunnyvale, CA. The role blends machine learning, robotics, and autonomous driving, with hands-on experiments and collaboration across perception, planning, and systems teams.

The internship offers exposure to foundation models, multimodal learning, and world models, with mentorship and potential for research outputs such as publications or open-source contributions.