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Toyota Research Institute · 10 hours ago

Energy & Materials Intern — Materials Representation Learning for Accelerated Design

Los Altos, CA

Internship

Hybrid

Intern

$45/hr - $65/hr

Toyota Research Institute (TRI) is on a mission to improve the quality of human life through advanced AI and materials science. The internship focuses on developing next-generation material representations to support accelerated materials design, collaborating with researchers to prototype and evaluate representation-learning approaches.

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Comp. & Benefits

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Build and maintain strong baselines comparing composition-only and structure-aware representations across a set of key property prediction tasks

Prototype and evaluate multi-view representation methods that integrate signals from multiple characterizations and properties

Develop a reusable evaluation and reporting pipeline to assess generalization, identify failure modes, and quantify uncertainty where appropriate

Curate datasets and implement preprocessing workflows that better capture complex materials systems and common sources of noise or ambiguity

Contribute high-quality, well-documented code to an internal codebase and help translate results into internal reports, publications, and/or patent disclosures (as appropriate)

Qualification

Machine LearningMaterials SciencePythonRepresentation LearningUncertainty EstimationPhysics-informed ModelingResearch TranslationCollaboration

Required

MS or PhD (or equivalent industry experience) in computer science, applied math, materials science, chemistry, physics, or a related field

Strong foundations in machine learning with demonstrated experience training models on real datasets

Familiarity with modern scientific ML approaches, including representation learning, uncertainty estimation, and/or physics-informed or hybrid physics–ML modeling

Proficiency in Python and modern ML tooling (e.g., PyTorch/JAX, experiment tracking, reproducibility best practices)

Ability to work collaboratively across disciplines and to translate research ideas into working code

Preferred

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Benefits

Medical

Dental

Vision insurance

Paid time off benefits

Holiday pay

Sick time

Company

Toyota Research Institute

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Toyota Research Institute is an R&D enterprise with an initial focus on artificial intelligence and robotics.

Founded in 2016

Palo Alto, California, USA

201-500 employees

http://www.tri.global

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