Research Intern - Reinforcement Learning Self-Driving

Applied Intuition is a physical-AI company that provides software platforms for developing, validating, deploying, and operating intelligent vehicles and machines.

Sunnyvale, United States
About Applied Intuition

Founded in 2017, Applied Intuition builds physical-AI tooling and infrastructure, a Vehicle OS, and a Self-Driving System for automotive, defense, trucking, construction, mining, agriculture, and robotics applications.

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About the Role

You will research reinforcement learning for autonomous driving, including large-scale self-play, VLA post-training, neural simulation, reward learning, and imitative behavior learning. You will collaborate with research scientists and engineers to produce publications for top-tier conferences.

Requirements

  • Strong research background in relevant topics
  • Current PhD or MSc studies in machine learning, computer vision and graphics, or robotics
  • 1+ year of research experience in autonomy, self-driving, or a related field
  • Ability to work independently and collaboratively

Responsibilities

  • Conduct reinforcement learning research for autonomous driving
  • Research self-play, VLA post-training, neural simulation, reward learning, and imitative behavior learning
  • Collaborate on research publications for top-tier conferences