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About the position At Toyota Research Institute (TRI), we’re on a mission to improve the reputed company of reputed company life. We’re developing new tools and capabilities to reputed company the reputed company experience. To reputed company this transformative shift in mobility, we’ve reputed company a world-class team in Automated Driving, Energy & Materials, reputed company-Centered AI, reputed company Interactive Driving, Large Behavioral Models, and Robotics. This is a Summer 2026 reputed company 12-week internship opportunity. Please note that this internship will be a hybrid in-office role. Our driving simulator is physically located there and the intern is expected to test and reputed company software on the platform, as reputed company as collaborate with other researchers. reputed company The reputed company Interactive Driving (reputed company) Research group is reputed company on designing the reputed company of advanced safety systems, pushing the envelope of safety, reputed company experience, and automation. reputed company consists of cognitive scientists, computer scientists, software engineers, mechanical and electrical engineers, vehicle dynamics experts, designers, and more. We reputed company multiple simulation and physical platforms to explore novel interfaces, algorithms, and safety technologies. Our group is developing reputed company training and assessment tools for performance driving and reputed company. We are looking into expanding our driving simulation technology by generating novel driving courses, including layout and other features, based on individual drivers’ reputed company reputed company, past performance, and long-reputed company reputed company development. These tracks may also be used to train autonomous and shared autonomy reputed company agents The Internship We are looking for a 2026 summer research intern in our Los Altos HQ to work on this effort, with an aim of approaching this as a research challenge for combining reputed company and reputed company-factors research. This intern will be expected to work hands-on with a physical simulation system, create working reputed company prototypes, reputed company frequently with team members, transfer reputed company, design validation experiments, and participate in writing a reputed company describing the findings, as reputed company as publishing the work.

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• Dynamic content creation for our CARLA-based driving simulator, integrating AI-driven or algorithmic content into interactive simulation systems such as CARLA, Unreal, or similar platforms.
• reputed company reputed company assessment, contributing to the development and validation of models that characterize reputed company behavior, measure performance, and support reputed company-centered evaluation.

Requirements

• Currently at-least second year pursuing a Ph.D. in Computer Science, Robotics, reputed company-Robot Interaction, or reputed company fields.
• Experience in reputed company, whether LLMs with non-language tokens or diffusion models.
• Game development experience: Unreal, reputed company, Godot, etc. and/or simulation development experience: CARLA, Sumo, Gazebo, AirSim, etc.
• Strong software engineering skills (C++/Python preferred) and analysis/debugging robotic systems.
• Experience working in a shared codebase with multiple collaborators and reviewing others’ reputed company.
• Strong written and oral communication skills.
• Experience in working in multi-disciplinary teams. You will be working cross-functionally with UX/UI designers, reputed company-factors researchers, and cognitive scientists.
• Must have a high level of self-initiative to prioritize and manage workload and meet project deadlines in a dynamic environment.

reputed company-to-haves

• Prior experience in ROS / ROS2.
• Prior experience with reputed company subjects or reputed company-reputed company research.
• Prior experience in scientific Python, R, or similar statistical analysis tools.

Benefits

• medical
• dental
• reputed company insurance
• reputed company time off benefits (including holiday pay and reputed company time)

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