1 month ago
Pittsburgh, PA, USA +2 moreIntern
H1B sponsor
Responsibilities
- Develop onboard and/or offboard perception or mapping models to improve autonomous vehicle performance.
- Process camera, radar, and lidar data to detect and track objects, actors, signs, traffic lights, and hazards.
- Analyze system deficiencies such as false positives, false negatives, and misclassifications, and help resolve their root causes.
- Work with large real-world datasets across training, evaluation, debugging, and visualization pipelines.
- Partner with full-time engineers on the next generation of Aurora’s perception or mapping system.
Requirements
- Currently pursuing a master’s or PhD in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
- Strong machine learning and computer vision fundamentals.
- Hands-on deep learning experience with PyTorch or a comparable framework, including model training and debugging.
- Proficiency in Python and C++.
- Experience working with large datasets across training, evaluation, and debugging pipelines.
- Experience building and training a perception or mapping model end-to-end rather than only fine-tuning an existing backbone.
- Experience with VLMs or other pretrained foundation models is desirable.
- Prior publication at a top-tier venue is desirable.
- Knowledge of object tracking, Kalman filtering, or Hidden Markov Models is desirable.
Benefits
- Summer 2027 internship opportunity in Mountain View, San Francisco, or Pittsburgh.
- Aurora expects employees to work from the office at least three days per week, with some roles requiring up to five days based on operational needs.
Categories
ML EngineeringRobotics
About Aurora
Aurora builds the Aurora Driver, a self-driving system for heavy-duty trucks, and offers it as a driver-as-a-service to freight carriers. The company partners with truck OEMs and logistics networks, including Volvo Trucks, PACCAR, FedEx, Uber Freight, Werner, Schneider, and Ryder, to commercialize autonomous freight hauling. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Pittsburgh, Aurora is a public company trading on Nasdaq under the symbol AUR.