Intern Positions - Honda Research Institute USA

Intern Positions

Currently, HRI-US is offering research and engineering internships to highly qualified and motivated students.  Research interns will work closely with HRI scientists and are encouraged to publish results in academic forums.   For research internship positions, we are looking for candidates with a good publication record and excellent programming skills to join our team. The positions currently listed are for the Summer 2025.

Current Openings

Metacognitive AI for Enhancing Reliability of Reasoning ...

Job Number: P24INT-02
This project aims to develop "metacognitive AI" that can self-assess and adapt its behavior to mitigate erroneous behaviors. Specifically, we aim to address the following two issues. (Hallucination) LLMs may generate content that ...
San Jose, CA
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Human Factors and Behavioral Modeling

Job Number: P24INT-04
This project focuses on defining and establishing metrics to help assess mobility users in different scenarios. The project evaluates human factors and challenges of how different mobility interactions would impact people. The research ...
San Jose, CA
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Visuotactile Representation Learning for Robotic ...

Job Number: P24INT-07
We are seeking passionate individuals who will contribute to the development of cutting-edge perception algorithms, integrating computer vision and tactile sensing (visuotactile) to enhance the capabilities of robots in in-hand ...
San Jose, CA
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Intention Estimation and Assistance Generation in ...

Job Number: P24INT-08
​This internship focuses on the development, implementation, and testing of algorithms to model and infer the intentions of a human operator during object manipulation by a teleoperated robot and generate robotic assistance to the ...
San Jose, CA
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Human Activity Understanding for Autonomous Driving ...

Job Number: P24INT-09
This project focuses on the development of computer vision and machine learning algorithms to recognize, interpret and predict human actions and activities in videos, with particular emphasis on action anticipation.
San Jose, CA
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Multimodal Spatial Cognition Intern

Job Number: P24INT-10
We are seeking a highly motivated and intellectually curious Multi-Modal Spatial Cognition Intern to join our team. In this role, you will contribute to the development of multi-modal foundation models, aiming to improve the understanding ...
San Jose, CA
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3D Computer Vision Intern

Job Number: P24INT-11
​We are seeking a highly motivated and intellectually curious 3D Computer Vision Intern to join our team. Dive into the development of innovative multi-view vision algorithms for indoor scene reconstruction and play a pivotal role ...
San Jose, CA
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2D and 3D Road Scene Understanding

Job Number: P24INT-12
The goal of this internship will be to perform scene understanding in and around intersection. This would include detection of an intersection from large distances, estimating distance of the ego car from the intersection, and estimation ...
San Jose, CA
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Behavior Modeling and Robust Prediction

Job Number: P24INT-13
This project focuses on computational modeling and prediction for human drivers. The task will incorporate predicting the behavior of traffic agents, including in dynamic scenes where the agent may interact with or respond to their ...
Mountain View, CA
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Behavior Modeling and Interactive Prediction

Job Number: P24INT-14
This project focuses on computational modeling and prediction for human drivers. The task will incorporate predicting the behavior of traffic agents, including in dynamic scenes where the agent may interact with or respond to their ...
Mountain View, CA
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Vision-Language Modeling for Autonomous Vehicle ...

Job Number: P24INT-15
Honda Research Institute, USA (HRI-US) in Mountainview, California is seeking a talented computer scientist eager to work with autonomous vehicle technology. This individual will support the research and development of a Vision-Language ...
Mountain View, CA
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User-Preference Based Robot Navigation

Job Number: P24INT-16
This project focuses on user-preference based robot navigation (decision-making, motion planning, and trajectory generation). The task will incorporate deciding on a robot's future course of action in accordance with a user's preference ...
Mountain View, CA
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Robotics Software Engineering Intern

Job Number: P24INT-17
​Design and develop reliable software modules for autonomous driving and cooperative mobility research. Work with a team of scientists and engineers to implement software modules for physical systems. Maintain and improve existing ...
Mountain View, CA
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Machine Learning: Prediction and Planning

Job Number: P24INT-18
​This project focuses on generative models for cooperative mobility. You will explore machine learning methods for traffic agent behavior prediction. The project involves research and development of state of the art interaction ...
Mountain View, CA
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Learning Enhanced Motion Planning

Job Number: P24INT-19
During the time of employment, you are expected to design and implement deep learning models tailored to enhance motion planning and decision-making processes in automated mobility systems. This will include implementing state-of-the-art ...
Mountain View, CA
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Optimization-Based Motion Planning

Job Number: P24INT-20
During the time of employment, you are expected to participate in the development, implementation, and validation of a state-of-the-art optimization-based motion planning algorithm to expand our autonomous driving features. This ...
Mountain View, CA
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LLM Safety Framework Development for Motorcycle ...

Job Number: P24INT-21
During the internship, you are expected to design and implement Large Language Model (LLM) frameworks tailored to enhance safety and decision-making processes in motorcycle Advanced Rider Assistance Systems (ARAS). This will involve ...
Mountain View, CA
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Socially Acceptable Interactive Decision Making ...

Job Number: P24INT-22
This position focuses on researching motion planning and decision-making algorithms for autonomous driving (AD) applications. Autonomous vehicles frequently interact with pedestrians and other vehicles, requiring them to learn intentions ...
Mountain View, CA
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Physical Interaction and Telemanipulation

Job Number: P24INT-23
This internship focuses on researching, developing, implementing, and validating advanced control methods to ensure safe and intuitive physical interactions between robots and their environment in a bilateral teleoperation setup. ...
San Jose, CA
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Multi-Agent Interactions with Humans

Job Number: P24INT-26
With AI agents becoming more ubiquitous, studying their impact on humans is becoming critical. To understand how to design and develop such AI agents, there is a need to postulate frameworks that study multi-human, multi-agent interactions. ...
San Jose, CA
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Robust In-Hand Manipulation

Job Number: P24INT-27
​Dexterous manipulation capabilities are essential for robots to function effectively in human-centric environments. This research aims to develop, implement, and validate algorithms for robust dexterous manipulation, considering ...
San Jose, CA
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