About Zoox
Zoox is transforming mobility with fully autonomous, electric vehicles designed from the ground up for a driverless future. Our mission is to make transportation safer, more sustainable, and accessible to everyone. At Zoox, innovation, collaboration, and a bold vision for the future drive everything we do.
About Our Internship Program
Zoox’s internship program offers hands-on experience with cutting-edge technology, mentorship from some of the industry’s brightest minds, and the opportunity to make meaningful contributions to real projects. We seek interns who demonstrate strong academic performance, engagement beyond the classroom, intellectual curiosity, and a genuine interest in Zoox’s mission.
Project Overview
Interns on this team will have the opportunity to develop state-of-the-art agent policies at the forefront of autonomy research, while contributing to work with strong potential for publication. You’ll partner closely with experienced researchers to tackle a high-impact, open research problem that is directly relevant to the team’s roadmap.
This role offers a rare combination of deep research and real-world impact—with a clear path for your work to transition from novel ideas into production systems within the simulation stack that validates Zoox’s autonomous driving software.
Qualifications:
- Strong python programming and data engineering skills
- Well-versed in PyTorch or other learning framework
- Experience in detection, tracking, or prediction models
- Experience with complex code bases
Bonus Qualifications:
- Publication records in top-tier AI conferences (CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, etc)
- Experience with large-scale data sets for ML training
Requirements:
- Currently working towards a Ph.D in in Computer Science, Electrical/Computer Engineering, or related field, with the specialization in the CV/NLP/ML
- Good academic standing
- Able to commit to a 12-week internship during one of the following summer 2026 cohorts: May 18th - August 7th, OR May 26th - August 14th, OR June 15th - September 4th
- At least one previous industry internship, co-op, or project completed in a relevant area
- Ability to relocate to the Bay Area, California (or Boston, Massachusetts) for the duration of the internship
- Interns at Zoox may not use any proprietary information they are working on as part of their thesis, any published work with their university, or to be distributed to anyone outside of Zoox
What We Do
Zoox is an autonomous mobility company that was founded to provide a safer, cleaner, and more enjoyable future on the road. To achieve that goal, the company has spent the past 10 years creating a purpose-built robotaxi that gives the world a better way to ride.
Why Work With Us
At Zoox, we are working to solve one of the greatest technological challenges of our generation. From the beginning, we have been focused on our goal of reimagining transportation from the ground up. We are a mission-driven community of innovators working together to create a safer, cleaner, and more enjoyable future on the road.
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