Motional · 1 day ago
2026 Summer Intern – MS/PhD – Behaviors
Boston, MA
Internship
Hybrid
Intern
Start in 2026 SummerMotional is a driverless technology company focused on making autonomous vehicles a safe and accessible reality. They are seeking a highly motivated intern to join their Behaviors team, where the intern will conduct research on Machine Learning related to driving behavior, collaborate with teams to deploy research results, and publish findings in papers and patents.
AutomotiveAutonomous VehiclesFleet ManagementInformation TechnologySoftware
Responsibilities
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
Qualification
Required
Enrolled in a Masters or 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
Preferred
Previous experience in autonomous driving
Company
Motional
Motional offers an autonomous driving platform for robotaxi providers, fleet operators, and automotive manufacturers.
Founded in 2020
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
unknown2024-05-03Acquired
2024-03-15Seed
Leadership Team
Laura Major
President and CEO
Balajee Kannan
Vice President, Autonomy
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