Machine Learning Research Scientist, Adaptive Behavioral Systems
Toyota Research Institute
·Nov 6, 2025
- Location
- Los Altos, CA
- Workplace
- Hybrid
- Type
- Full-time
- Department
- Human-Centered AI
- Experience
- 1+ years
- Education
- PhD
- Source
- Lever
Description
At Toyota Research Institute (TRI), we’re on a mission to improve the quality of human life. We’re developing new tools and capabilities to amplify the human experience. To lead this transformative shift in mobility, we’ve built a world-class team advancing the state of the art in AI, robotics, driving, and material sciences.
The Team
TRI’s Adaptive Behavioral Systems Department within our Human-Centered AI (HCAI) Division aims to develop AI systems that can support behavior change, such as reducing carbon emissions. To do this, we are developing novel models of human behavior that integrate behavioral science, Human-Computer Interaction, and advanced machine learning.
The Opportunity
We are looking for an AI Research Scientist, or Senior Machine Learning Research Scientist with expertise in large-scale foundational model training, fine-tuning, evaluation and benchmarking. This role operates at the forefront of generative machine learning and human behavior modeling. Ideal candidates will bring a strong research track record, hands-on experimentation skills, and experience developing and deploying foundational models. This role sits at the intersection of social science and generative AI, building models that represent human beliefs, preferences, and cognition as they change over time. For an example of our early research in this vein, please see https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.20252.
Skills
PythonMachine LearningDeep LearningNLPTensorFlowPyTorchProject Management
