Teams at Toyota Research Institute

The VC Associate will source and screen innovative companies, participate in due diligence, prepare investment memos, and support deal negotiations while networking within the startup ecosystem.

Paid 12-week hybrid Ph.D. research internship conducting original ML research for world models and autonomous driving. Responsibilities include designing, training, and evaluating models (world modeling, model-based RL, 3D perception), prototyping in closed-loop simulation and hardware, working with large datasets, collaborating with researchers, and publishing results.

The internship involves researching emotional labor in difficult workplace conversations, evaluating AI platforms, and prototyping solutions within an interdisciplinary team focused on organizational behavior and wellbeing.