2026 Summer Intern – AIML Intern – Vision Language ModelAction (PhD)
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Job Location:
Sunnyvale, CA - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
8 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Job Description
To help facilitate administration of relocation benefits if you are selected please apply using the permanent address you would move from.
Work Arrangement:
Hybrid: This internship is categorized as hybrid. The selected intern is expected to report to the office up to three times per week or as determined by the team.
Locations:
San Francisco California
Sunnyvale California
Mountain View California
About the Team:
The AI Research organization is dedicated to advancing the state-of-the-art in AI for autonomous vehicles. We are a collaborative forward-thinking group of researchers and engineers tackling some of the most complex challenges in autonomy and machine learning.
About the Role:
As a VLM/VLA Research Intern on the AI Research team you will operate at the frontier of Embodied AI developing foundational models that bridge the gap between high-level reasoning and physical execution. Your work will focus on advancing vision-language-action architectures to solve critical challenges in data mining and end-to-end autonomous driving. This role offers a unique opportunity to work on real-world AI/ML systems at scale collaborating with and receiving mentorship from world-class researchers to shape the future of grounded foundation models in the autonomous vehicle industry.
What Youll Do:
Drive the development of embodied foundation models and vision-language-action architectures that unify multimodal perception with robotic control.
Prototype and refine ML models that leverage VLA architectures to improve decision-making and reasoning for autonomous vehicles through imitation and reinforcement learning.
Utilize vision-language models and generative techniques (such as world models) to improve the models understanding of complex driving scenarios.
Partner with perception robotics and systems engineering teams to integrate VLA research into the broader autonomous stack and validate models in closed-loop environments.
Engage in high-level technical brainstorming share insights across the AI Research org and contribute to the academic community through top-tier conference publications.
Required Qualifications:
Currently pursuing or in the process of obtaining a Ph.D. in Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence Computer Science or a related technical field.
Solid understanding of modern machine learning techniques especially deep learning architectures (e.g. transformers LLMs VLMs generative models multimodal learning).
Proficiency in Python and ML frameworks such as PyTorch or TensorFlow.
Research experience in AI/ML demonstrated through coursework academic projects or publications.
Strong problem-solving skills and a collaborative mindset.
Strong communication and presentation skills.
Experience working and communicating cross functionally in a team environment.
Able to work fulltime 40 hours per week
Preferred Qualifications:
Familiarity with autonomous vehicles or advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS).
Experience working with large-scale datasets and training ML models in high-performance computing environments.
Experience adapting foundation models (VLM/VLAs diffusion instruction-following agents) for embodied control tasks.
Intent to return to degree program after the completion of the internship/co-op
Proven track record of achieving significant results as demonstrated by grants fellowships patents as well as first-authored publications at leading workshops or conferences such as NeurIPS CVPR ICML ICLR AAAI ECCV RSS ICRA CoRL or similar.
Demonstrated experience and self-driven motivation in solving analytical problems using quantitative approaches
Experience building systems based on machine learning reinforcement learning and/or deep learning methods
Compensation:
The monthly salary range for this role is $13100 per month
GM will provide a one-time lump sum taxable stipend payment to eligible students selected for the 2026 Student Program.
What youll get from us (Benefits):
Paid US GM Holidays
GM Family First Vehicle Discount Program
Result-based potential for growth within GM
Intern events to network with company leaders and peers
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