# Engineer I, VLA Model Development (Intern)

We are CARIAD, an automotive software development team with the Volkswagen Group. Our mission is to make the automotive experience safer, more sustainable, more comfortable, more digital, and more fun. To achieve that we are building the leading tech stack for the automotive industry and creating a unified software platform for over 10 million new vehicles per year. We’re looking for talented, digital minds like you to help us create code that moves the world. Together with you, we’ll build outstanding digital experiences and products for all Volkswagen Group brands that will transform mobility. Join us as we shape the future of the car and everyone around it. Role Summary: The Engineer I, VLA Model Development (Intern) will support model research and development for autonomous driving at CARIAD INC. and the Volkswagen Group. Working with researchers and engineers, this role will develop and evaluate vision-language-action (VLA) models that connect visual observations and language with driving actions. Depending on project needs and research strengths, the work may focus on perception, scene understanding, or world models that predict how driving environments evolve. Role Responsi

- **Id**: 4148594
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/cariad-engineer-i-vla-model-development-intern>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: intern
- **Employment type**: internship
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Mountain View, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-10-23T21:05:18Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-03
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T08:17:38Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 19
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 6188
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: 401k plan
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Autonomous Driving, Automotive Software

## Company

- **Id**: 135
- **Name**: CARIAD
- **Domain**: cariad.technology
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/cariad>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

## Salary

- **Min**: 44
- **Max**: 96
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: hour
- **Usd annual**: 192000

## Technologies

- **Computer Vision** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **PyTorch** — Optional: no
- **Vision-Language-Action** — Optional: no
- **World Models** — Optional: no
- **Diffusion Models** — Optional: yes
- **Embodied AI** — Optional: yes
- **Imitation Learning** — Optional: yes
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: yes
- **Multimodal AI** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 19

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: master
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-12T08:17:38Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 77
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 0.9
- **Age days**: 19
- **Expected fill days**: 28
- **Reasons**: conf:2, win:mid, comp:junior
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 192000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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