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PhD Research Intern, Mapping Software

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Zoox’s internship program provides hands-on experiences with state of the art technology, mentorship from some of the industry's brightest minds, and the opportunity to play a part in our success.

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Zoox’s internship program provides hands-on experiences with state of the art technology, mentorship from some of the industry's brightest minds, and the opportunity to play a part in our success. Internships at Zoox are reserved for those who demonstrate outstanding academic performance, activities outside their course work, aptitude, curiosity, and a passion for Zoox's mission.

High-definition semantic maps are critical for enabling fully autonomous driving. We are looking for highly motivated individuals who are passionate about machine learning and computer vision. You will be part of our mapping team with a diverse group of researchers and engineers, working together to build core machine perception algorithms to understand the natural environments and build semantic maps in an automated way.

Design and develop novel algorithms and ML models for 2D/3D perception to target near 100% accuracy for real-world safety-critical application

Stay up-to-date with the latest state-of-the-art research in computer vision and machine learning. Integrating SOTA Vision Transformer, Vision Language Model in production. and apply learned knowledge to improve our systems

Coordinate cross-functional initiatives and collaborate with engineers from Mapping, Perception, and Data Science

Currently working towards a Ph.D in a relevant engineering program

Must be returning to school to continue your education upon completing this internship

Good academic standing

Able to commit to a 12-week internship during one of the following summer 2026 cohorts: May 18th - August 7th, OR May 26th - August 14th, OR June 15th - September 4th

At least one previous industry internship, co-op, or project completed in a relevant area

Ability to relocate to the Bay Area, California for the duration of the internship

Interns at Zoox may not use any proprietary information they are working on as part of their thesis, any published work with their university, or to be distributed to anyone outside of Zoox

Experience with training and deploying deep learning models

Experience with 3D computer vision and projective geometry

Proficiency in Python and/or C++

Experience with deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch

Conference or journal publications in Computer Vision, Machine Learning or Robotics related venues (CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ICRA, RSS, etc.)

Experience with high-definition (HD) maps

Experience with object detection, object recognition, semantic segmentation and/or semantic scene understanding

Experience with 3D reconstruction, SLAM and/or Structure from Motion (SFM)

Experience with Geographic Information System (GIS)