Houston, TX

Salary
Posted
Jul 2, 2026
Location
Houston, TX
Last confirmed open
Jul 21, 2026

What this job asks for AI summary

A 3–6 month full-time internship on an autonomous trucking AI team, focused on prototyping and benchmarking deep learning architectures across areas such as multi-modal perception, online mapping, behavior prediction, and world models. The intern will own a targeted research project end-to-end — from data analysis through model verification — training and tuning models on large-scale compute clusters using real truck datasets. Best suited to current MS or PhD candidates with a strong foundation in modern AI architectures.

Junior level · National · Master's required · Internship

Must have (3)
PythonPyTorchTransformers
Nice to have (4)
LinuxGitC++TensorRT or Onnx

“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.

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How this req sits in the market our data

What gives you an edge
Transformers9%

Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.

What won't set you apart
Python88%

Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.

What the occupation pays Median $122,874 (middle half $87,544–$162,374).

Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.

Why we read it this way (7)

Location is not specified in the posting; CBSA and state fields are left blank. The company (Bot Auto) appears to be US-based but no city or state is mentioned.

The role is explicitly an internship (3–6 months, full-time) targeting current MS or PhD candidates — classified as Junior seniority accordingly.

Degree requirement is set to Masters as the minimum: the posting requires enrollment in a Master's or PhD program. Because equivalent experience is not offered as a substitute, this is treated as a hard gate.

The SOC is a judgment call: the role is primarily AI/deep learning research (model prototyping, benchmarking architectures, training/tuning) which maps best to Data Scientists (15-2051), but the emphasis on clean coding, PyTorch implementation, and deployment tools also has a Software Developers (15-1252) dimension.

Research focus areas (Multi-sensor Perception, Generative AI/Diffusion, Motion Prediction, End-to-End Autonomous Driving) and publication track record (CVPR, ICCV, NeurIPS, ICLR, ICRA) are listed under Preferred and are not emitted as named tool/technology skills.

TensorRT and ONNX are listed together as deployment tool examples under the preferred 'Engineering Plus' bullet; TensorRT is the primary skill with ONNX as an alternative.

Posting is for a internship engagement — the market benchmarks below price full-time roles, so read the comp comparison with that in mind.

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