Research Engineer Intern - Perception, E2E Autonomous Driving

Responsibilities:

• Conduct research on end-to-end autonomous driving architectures, focusing on unified perception, prediction, and planning models.
• Implement and optimize multi-task learning approaches for driving tasks, including object detection, motion prediction, and trajectory planning.
• Work with sensor fusion techniques combining multi-modal inputs (e.g., camera, LiDAR, radar) to improve perception and decision-making.
• Develop spatio-temporal and motion planning transformers for holistic driving scene understanding
• Train, fine-tune, and evaluate models using large-scale autonomous driving datasets and internal Plus datasets
• Utilize simulators to test and validate models in diverse driving scenarios.
• Optimize real-time inference and deployment of driving models for efficient execution on edge devices.
• Contribute to research publications and open-source implementations of E2E-AD models.

Required Skills:

• Pursuing MS or PhD in CS, EE, mathematics, statistics or related field
• Thorough understanding of deep learning principles and familiarity with perception, prediction and planning models
• Proficiency in Python and deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch or TensorFlow.
• Experience with computer vision and sensor processing techniques.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

Preferred Skills:

• Past experiences in projects involving design, training or fine-tuning of various autonomous driving related models
• Familiarity with autonomous driving datasets (e.g., nuScenes, Waymo).
• Hands-on experience with simulators like CARLA, AirSim, or equivalent.
• Knowledge of robotics and motion planning algorithms is a plus.
• Publication record in relevant venues (CVPR, ICLR, ICCV, ECCV, NeurIPS, AAAI, SIGGRAPH)