Machine Learning Engineer Intern - Planning

PlusAI

Posted 3 months ago

Internship

Santa Clara, California

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Responsibilities

Modify and expand a Scene Transformer framework to generate diverse ego-vehicle trajectories for ambiguous scenarios. Formulate recursive and multi-step loss functions to stabilize long-horizon trajectory rollouts and evaluate them against real-world logs.

Qualifications

You possess expertise in trajectory prediction, behavior forecasting, and large-scale model training using self-supervision or contrastive learning. You have practical experience with PyTorch, PyTorch Lightning, or JAX, and understand AV stack components.

Must Have Skills for ATS

trajectory prediction

behavior forecasting

multi-agent motion modeling

self-supervision

contrastive learning

representation learning

scene-level modeling

PyTorch

PyTorch Lightning

JAX

uncertainty estimation

multi-modal prediction

probabilistic modeling

localization

perception

tracking

planning

Job Description

PlusAI is a Physical AI company pioneering AI-based virtual driver software for factory-built autonomous trucks. Headquartered in Silicon Valley with operations in the United States and Europe, Plus was named by Fast Company as one of the World’s Most Innovative Companies. Partners including TRATON GROUP’s Scania, MAN, and International brands, Hyundai Motor Company, Iveco Group, Bosch, and DSV are working with Plus to accelerate the deployment of next-generation autonomous trucks. If you’re ready to make a huge impact and drive the future of autonomy, Plus is looking for talented individuals to join its fast-growing teams.

We’re seeking an enthusiastic and driven Simulation/ML Engineer Intern to join our team. In this role, you’ll help build expand the scene transformer model to provide multiple trajectories for ego in ambiguous cases, and explore longer horizon predictions using recursive and multi-step losses.

Area of work: 
Deep Learning Models, Planning, Prediction

\nResponsibilities:
  • Multimodal Architecture Design: Modify and expand an existing Scene Transformer framework to generate a diverse set of ego-vehicle trajectories for ambiguous scenarios.
  • Loss Function Engineering: Formulate and experiment with recursive, autoregressive, and multi-step losses to stabilize long-horizon trajectory rollouts.
  • Diversity & Feasibility Optimization: Mitigate mode collapse to ensure the generated paths are distinctly varied yet kinematically feasible.
  • Evaluation & Benchmarking: Design metrics to evaluate trajectory diversity, safety, and long-horizon accuracy against real-world driving logs.
Required Skills:
  • Expertise in trajectory prediction, behavior forecasting, and multi-agent motion modeling
  • Experience training large-scale models with self-supervision, contrastive learning, representation learning, or scene-level modeling
  • Practical experience with PyTorch, PyTorch Lightning or JAX.
  • Experience with uncertainty estimation (aleatoric, epistemic), multi-modal prediction, and probabilistic modeling
  • Understanding of AV stack components: localization, perception, tracking, prediction, and planning.
  • Strong debugging, experiment design, data analysis, and failure-mode investigation skills.
\n$19 - $65 an hourOur internship hourly rates are a standard pay determined based on the position and your location, year in school, degree, and experience.\n

Your opportunities joining PlusAI

Work, learn and grow in a highly future-oriented, innovative and dynamic field.

Wide range of opportunities for personal and professional development.

Catered free lunch, unlimited snacks and beverages.

Highly competitive salary and benefits package, including 401(k) plan.

PlusAI

PlusAI is an artificial intelligence company pioneering AI-based virtual driver software for factory-built autonomous trucks. Headquartered in Silicon Valley with operations in the United States and Europe, PlusAI was named by Fast Company as one of the World’s Most Innovative Companies. Partners including TRATON GROUP’s Scania, MAN, and International brands, Hyundai Motor Company, Iveco Group, Bosch, and DSV are working with PlusAI to accelerate the deployment of next-generation autonomous trucks. PlusAI announced in June 2025 that it plans to go public via a merger with Churchill Capital Corp IX (NASDAQ: CCIX).
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