2026 Summer Machine Learning Engineering Intern – PhD – Behaviors

Mission Summary:

We are looking for a highly motivated intern to join our Behaviors team and conduct research on Machine Learning for prediction and planning. Here, you will work with the team behind nuScenes, nuPlan, PBP Trajectory Prediction and DriveIRL to deliver ML technologies aligned with the core values of Motional, ensuring the highest standards of quality, scientific rigor and innovation.

What you’ll be doing:

• Conduct research on driving behavior related topics, such as motion prediction and planning, agent simulation, scenario generation, Vision-Language-Action model(VLA), etc.
• Work with large-scale internal realworld driving datasets to demonstrate the effectiveness of your research
• Collaborate with different teams to deploy your research results into the autonomous vehicles and test it onroad. 
• Publish the research results in papers and patents

What we are looking for:

• Enrolled in a PhD program in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Robotics or similar technical field of study
• Strong Machine Learning research background with publications in any of the top-tier conferences(RSS, ICRA, CoRL, CVPR, ICRL, ICML, NeurIPS, etc.)
• Proficiency in Python coding and PyTorch or other commonly-used deep learning frameworks
• One-team mindset and effective collaboration with other researchers and engineers
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Previous experience in autonomous driving is preferred

Note: This will be a hybrid onsite internship position in Boston or Pittsburgh. We will accept resumes on a rolling basis until the role is filled. Compensation will be based on location and degree level.