PhD Research Intern, Object Detection and Tracking
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Job Location:
Foster, CA - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
Yesterday
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
About Zoox
Zoox is transforming mobility with fully autonomous electric vehicles designed from the ground up for a driverless future. Our mission is to make transportation safer more sustainable and accessible to everyone. At Zoox innovation collaboration and a bold vision for the future drive everything we do.
About Our Internship Program
Zooxs internship program offers hands-on experience with cutting-edge technology mentorship from some of the industrys brightest minds and the opportunity to make meaningful contributions to real projects. We seek interns who demonstrate strong academic performance engagement beyond the classroom intellectual curiosity and a genuine interest in Zooxs mission.
Project Overview
Interns on this team will have the opportunity to develop state-of-the-art agent policies at the forefront of autonomy research while contributing to work with strong potential for publication. Youll partner closely with experienced researchers to tackle a high-impact open research problem that is directly relevant to the teams roadmap.
This role offers a rare combination of deep research and real-world impactwith a clear path for your work to transition from novel ideas into production systems within the simulation stack that validates Zooxs autonomous driving software.
Qualifications:
- Strong python programming and data engineering skills
- Well-versed in PyTorch or other learning framework
- Experience in detection tracking or prediction models
- Experience with complex code bases
Bonus Qualifications:
- Publication records in top-tier AI conferences (CVPR ICCV ECCV NeurIPS ICLR ICML etc)
- Experience with large-scale data sets for ML training
Requirements:
- Currently working towards a Ph.D in in Computer Science Electrical/Computer Engineering or related field with the specialization in the CV/NLP/ML
- 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 (or Boston Massachusetts) 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
Required Experience:
Intern
About Company
We’re reinventing personal transportation—making the future safer, cleaner, and more enjoyable for everyone. This is on-demand autonomous ride-hailing.
