Summer Intern, Machine Learning Engineer, Trajectory Generation – PhD
General Motors
internship
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Sunnyvale • California • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $13,100 per month
Job Level
Entry Level
Tech Stack
JavaKerasPythonPyTorchTensorflow
About the role
- Implement and experiment with neural network architectures for trajectory prediction, behavior planning, or mission planning tasks
- Build data pipelines and visualization tools to process, analyze, and evaluate large-scale driving datasets
- Train and benchmark ML models using distributed compute infrastructure, running ablation studies to optimize performance
- Validate models in simulation environments and analyze failure cases across diverse driving scenarios
- Participate in code reviews, team meetings, and technical discussions while documenting experiments and results
- Contribute to production codebases by prototyping new approaches for handling challenging driving situations like merges or complex intersections
Requirements
- Currently enrolled in a PhD program in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Robotics, or a related STEM field.
- Hands-on experience with one or more machine learning frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow, JAX, or Keras).
- Availability to work full-time (40 hours per week) during the internship period.
- Demonstrated coursework, research, or projects in AI/ML.
- Strong programming skills in Python.
- Exposure to deep learning architectures such as Transformers, CNNs, or Diffusion Models (preferred).
- Exposure to deep reinforcement learning algorithms such as PPO, DQL, and distributional adaptations (preferred).
- Experience with robotics through projects or research (preferred).
- Familiarity with multimodal learning or working with complex, temporal data (preferred).
- Interest in contributing to publications, open-source projects, or patents (preferred).
- Familiarity with systems programming languages (e.g., C++ or Java) is a plus (preferred).
- Intent to return to degree-program after the completion of the internship.
- Graduating between December 2026 and June 2027.
Benefits
- Paid US GM Holidays
- GM Family First Vehicle Discount Program
- Result-based potential for growth within GM
- Intern events to network with company leaders and peers
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
neural network architecturestrajectory predictionbehavior planningmission planningmachine learning frameworksPyTorchTensorFlowPythondeep learning architecturesdeep reinforcement learning algorithms
Soft skills
team meetingstechnical discussionsdocumentation