Research Intern - Reinforcement Learning, Self-Driving

About the role:

We are looking for multiple passionate Research Interns to join the Research Group at Applied Intuition. The mission of the group is to create cutting‑edge technology enabling next‑generation physical AI, with emphasis on the two most challenging applications reshaping our everyday life: end‑to‑end autonomous driving and robotic generalist. We have a group composed of leading experts from top institutions and companies, recognized for their exceptional academic and industry contributions—including eight Best Paper awards at premier conferences and journals such as CVPR and ICRA.

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Supported by industry‑leading tools and infra, researchers can access millions of miles of data from large fleets, and deploy methods they develop into various autonomous and robotic systems including self‑driving cars/trucks, autonomous mining/construction machines, humanoid robots and dexterous hands. In addition to your research contributions, you will contribute to and learn from best practices in the autonomy and robotics industries within our fast‑paced and customer‑focused culture.

Improvements deployed to our system immediately help our customers with their programs and deliver value to our business.

• Conduct research on reinforcement learning (RL) related topics including large‑scale self‑play RL, VLA post‑training, large‑scale closed‑loop RL based on neural simulation with applications to autonomous driving
• Diving into fundamental topics on RL with broader applications and potential imitative behavior learning incorporation, and relevant topics such as reward learning
• Work closely with the Research Scientists and Engineers on high quality research publications for submission to top‑tier conferences

• Strong research background and skills on relevant topics, and the ability to work both independently and collaboratively on projects
• Current PhD (or MSc) studies in machine learning, computer vision and graphics, robotics
• Passion for next‑generation, scalable autonomy and robotics