Future Product Innovation Research Intern, Human-AI Computational Design
Toyota Research Institute
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- Location
- Los Altos, CA
- Workplace
- Hybrid
- Type
- Internship
- Department
- Human-Centered AI
- Seniority
- Internship
- 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.
This is a paid 12-week internship opportunity and is a hybrid, in-office role.
Here’s a glimpse into the Internship experience from some of our TRI interns!
The Team
This internship opportunity falls within the Human-Centered AI Division (HCAI). We are an integrated team of ML researchers, behavior scientists, and human-computer interaction experts. At the core of our work, we aim to create purposeful human futures enabled through technology.
The Internship
We are seeking a highly motivated PhD research intern to join our Future Product Innovation team and advance the frontiers of Generative AI for automotive product design. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in Machine Learning or a related field, with a demonstrated interest in developing rigorous quantitative and human-centered methods to evaluate and improve generative AI systems. In this project, the intern will explore models for 3D parametric design generation and reasoning, with a particular focus on evaluating design quality, intent alignment, and decision-making under complex constraints and trade-offs.
Over the course of the project, in addition to Future Product Innovation group meetings, the intern will also participate in all Human-Centered AI division meetings and meetings with stakeholders from relevant Toyota business groups. The intern will be exposed to how interdisciplinary industrial research works and learn from our team as well as the other interns in our division. Furthermore, the intern will engage in strategy discussions about how their research connects to business impact at Toyota.