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2027 Intern, PhD Research Scientist

Waabi· Research / Internships
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Hybrid (Toronto, ON / Pittsburgh, PA / San Francisco, CA)$60/hrInternPosted 7mo ago

About the role

Internship for PhD candidates to contribute to AI research for autonomous driving, collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to develop and publish innovative algorithms across perception, prediction, motion planning, controls, simulation, mapping, and localization.

Responsibilities

  • Be part of a team of multidisciplinary Research Scientists and Engineers using an AI-first approach to enable safe self-driving at scale.
  • Lead or Contribute to an AI research project, pushing the frontiers of the field by developing new algorithms for Autonomous Vehicles (AV). Topics include perception, prediction, motion planning, controls, simulation, mapping, localization, core AI, etc.
  • Design, implement, train, and optimize novel algorithms on self-driving vehicles and various production systems.
  • Be encouraged to submit and publish work externally at top machine learning, computer vision, and robotics conferences (NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, CVPR, etc.), or post to the company blog.

Qualifications

  • Pursuing PhD degree in Computer Science, Engineering, AI, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Robotics and/or similar technical field(s) of study.
  • Demonstrated research/software engineering experience through internships, work experience, coding competitions, and/or research projects and papers.
  • At least one publication in top Machine Learning, Computer Vision, or Robotics conferences.
  • Strong quantitative background and coursework in or working knowledge of linear algebra, calculus, and probability.
  • Proficient in reading and coding in Python and/or C++.
  • Open-minded and collaborative team player with willingness to help others.
  • Passionate about self-driving technologies, solving hard problems, and creating innovative solutions.

Skills

Required:PythonC++Machine Learning / AILinear Algebra, Calculus, Probability

Benefits

  • Daily drinks, snacks and catered meals (when in office)
  • Regularly scheduled team building activities and social events
  • As we grow, this list continues to evolve!
  • Competitive benefits package (explicit in description)
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Waabi

pioneering Physical AI, starting with autonomous trucks.

Waabi is pioneering Physical AI, starting with autonomous trucks. We developed a next-generation approach leveraging an end-to-end interpretable and verifiable AI model that’s powered by the industry's most realistic neural simulator. This dramatically reduces the development time and resources needed to bring self-driving vehicles to public roads — safely and at scale.

Autonomous trucksPhysical AIneural simulatorAI modelself-driving vehicles
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