{"id":341833,"url":"https://alion.io/job/pony-ai-research-intern-deep-learning","title":"Research Intern - Deep Learning","company":{"id":119,"name":"Pony.ai","domain":"pony.ai","url":"https://alion.io/company/pony-ai","size_band":"201-500","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Workable","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":100,"open_postings":9,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":null,"computed_at":"2026-10-17T05:46:00Z"}},"role":"Early Careers","role_family":"Early Careers","seniority":"intern","employment_type":"internship","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Fremont, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":7000,"max":null,"currency":"USD","period":"month","gross":null,"usd_annual":84000},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"C++","optional":false},{"name":"Imitation Learning","optional":false},{"name":"Machine Learning","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"Reinforcement Learning","optional":false},{"name":"Reinforcement Learning","optional":false},{"name":"CUDA","optional":true},{"name":"CUDA Toolkit","optional":true},{"name":"Motion Planning","optional":true},{"name":"TensorRT","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-18T00:00:00Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-18","last_verified_at":"2026-10-18T04:32:25Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":30,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":0,"flags":[],"days_open":30},"description":"Founded in 2016 in Silicon Valley, Pony.ai has quickly become a global leader in autonomous mobility and is a pioneer in extending autonomous mobility technologies and services at a rapidly expanding footprint of sites around the world. Operating Robotaxi, Robotruck and Personally Owned Vehicles (POV) business units, Pony.ai is an industry leader in the commercialization of autonomous driving and is committed to developing the safest autonomous driving capabilities on a global scale. Pony.ai’s leading position has been recognized, with CNBC ranking Pony.ai #10 on its CNBC Disruptor list of the 50 most innovative and disruptive tech companies of 2022. In June 2023, Pony.ai was recognized on the XPRIZE and Bessemer Venture Partners inaugural “XB100” 2023 list of the world’s top 100 private deep tech companies, ranking #12 globally. As of August 2023, Pony.ai has accumulated nearly 21 million miles of autonomous driving globally. Pony.ai went public at NASDAQ in November 2024.\nResponsibility\nWork with experts in the field of self-driving vehicles on designing and developing large-scale foundation models trained on vast amounts of real world data.\nFrame the open-ended real-world problems into well-defined ML problems; develop and apply cutting-edge ML approaches (deep learning, reinforcement learning, imitation learning, etc) to these problems; scale them to data pipelines; and streamline them to run in real-time on the cars.\nDevelop and deploy deep learning models, including vision language models (VLMs) and Large Language Models (LLMs)\nDesign and implement multi-modality and multi-task perception models focusing on 3D object detection and tracking, segmentation, semantics understanding, video understanding, scene understanding, traffic control, or trajectory prediction, etc.\nOptimize deep learning models to run robustly under tight run-time constraints.\nRequirements\nCurrently pursuing a Masters or PhD program in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Robotics, or similar field\nStrong background in deep learning, with experience in model design, training and evaluation.\nExperience with deep learning research and tools.\nProficiency in software design and development using Python and C++.\nExperience working with large-scale datasets, data preprocessing, and pipeline management.\nPreferred Experience\nPublications on top-tier conferences like CVPR/ICCV/ECCV/ICLR/ICML/NeurIPS/ICLR/AAAI\nExperience in applying ML/DL for behavior prediction, imitation learning, motion planning.\nExperience in deploying deep learning algorithms for real time applications, with limited computing resources.\nExperience in convex optimization, computational geometry or linear algebra.\nExperience in GPU/CUDA/TensorRT\nPrevious internships involving large-scale deep learning models and systems\nPreferred graduate before Dec 2026\nNote\nThis position is rolling based and it can start any time.\nThis position is fully onsite in Fremont, at least 3 months.\nCompensation\nMaster: $7000/month\nPhD: $10,000/month\nPlease click here for our privacy disclosure.","description_format":"text","description_chars":3060,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Autonomous Driving","Ride Hailing"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-05T18:09:47Z"}],"visa":[{"country":"US","licensed_sponsor":true,"evidence":"H-1B filings in 12 months: 12 · green card filings: 6","filings_12m":12,"filings_prev_12m":18,"green_card_filings_12m":6,"median_offered_wage_usd":172500,"route":null,"cap_exempt":false,"checked_at":"2026-10-15T11:24:14+00:00","sources":["US Department of Labor: LCA disclosure data (H-1B, H-1B1, E-3)","US Department of Labor: PERM disclosure data (green cards)"],"filings_for_role_12m":0}],"liveness":{"score":41,"band":"fade","label":"Fading","p_open":1,"p_active":0.748,"p_room":0.55,"age_days":29,"expected_fill_days":27,"reasons":["conf:3","velocity","win:tail","comp:junior"],"computed_at":"2026-10-17T05:46:00Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":84000,"is_top_pay":true},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/pony-ai-research-intern-deep-learning","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/pony-ai-research-intern-deep-learning.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-18T08:48:31Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":13085,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-19T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":119},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=119"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fpony-ai-research-intern-deep-learning"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fpony-ai-research-intern-deep-learning"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fpony-ai-research-intern-deep-learning"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/pony-ai-research-intern-deep-learning\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fpony-ai-research-intern-deep-learning"}]}