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. 

Current Openings

Adaptive and Human-Centric AI Systems

Job Number: P24INT-48
​Honda Research Institute USA (HRI-US) is seeking a driven and creative research intern to join our efforts in developing adaptive AI systems that can operate in complex, human-AI collaborative environments. This internship offers ...
San Jose, CA
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Meta-Cognitive Agentic AI Systems

Job Number: P24INT-51
Honda Research Institute USA (HRI-US) is seeking a self-motivated research intern to join our Cooperative Cognition Team in developing adaptive AI systems that can operate in complex,human-AI collaborative environments. The intern ...
San Jose, CA
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Research Intern: Generative Models for Human Behavior ...

Job Number: P25INT-01
​Honda Research Institute USA (HRI-US) is seeking a highly motivated intern to contribute to our research on human behavior and motion generation. You will prototype generative models that synthesize realistic, physically plausible ...
San Jose, CA
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Research Intern: Multi-Modal Spatial Cognition

Job Number: P25INT-02
​Honda Research Institute USA (HRI-US) is 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 ...
San Jose, CA
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Research Intern: Spatial Memory Representation for ...

Job Number: P25INT-03
​Honda Research Institute USA (HRI-US) is seeking a highly motivated individual for developing algorithms for embodied AI navigation that leverage exploration strategies and cognitive maps and builds compact scene memory representation ...
San Jose, CA
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Research Intern: Video Action Segmentation & Continual ...

Job Number: P25INT-04
Honda Research Institute USA (HRI-US) is seeking a highly motivated and independent PhD research intern to join our team in advancing the frontiers of human action understanding and computer vision in long procedural videos. The ...
San Jose, CA
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Research Intern: Meta-Cognitive Agentic AI Systems ...

Job Number: P25INT-05
Honda Research Institute USA (HRI-US) is seeking a self-motivated research intern to join our Cooperative Cognition Team in advancing the next generation of adaptive AI systems that can thrive in complex, human-AI collaborative ...
San Jose, CA
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Research Intern: Action Understanding Using Narration ...

Job Number: P25INT-06
Honda Research Institute USA (HRI-US) is seeking a highly motivated and independent PhD research intern to join our team in advancing the frontiers of human action understanding and computer vision in long procedural videos. The ...
San Jose, CA
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Research Intern: Task Adaptivity For Autonomous ...

Job Number: P25INT-07
​Honda Research Institute USA (HRI-US) is seeking a a motivated and creative research intern to work on a project involving AI agents learning to adapt to new tasks in a multi-agent environment with minimal prior experience. This ...
San Jose, CA
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Research Intern: Collaborative Multi-Agent Intelligence ...

Job Number: P25INT-08
​Honda Research Institute USA (HRI-US) is seeking a research intern to contribute to foundational research focusing on how intelligent agents can reason about themselves, infer others’ beliefs and intentions, and coordinate effectively ...
San Jose, CA
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Research Intern: Adaptive Human-AI Teaming via Meta-Cognition ...

Job Number: P25INT-09
Honda Research Institute USA (HRI-US) is seeking a self-motivated research int​Honda Research Institute USA (HRI-US) is seeking a a motivated and creative research intern to advance our work on adaptive and human-centric AI systems. ...
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Research Intern: Cognitive and Social AI Modeling ...

Job Number: P25INT-10
​Honda Research Institute USA (HRI-US) is seeking a highly motivated Research Intern to contribute to research on computational models of cognition and social interaction. The position focuses on developing and analyzing models ...
San Jose, CA
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Research Intern: Human-AI Group Interaction

Job Number: P25INT-11
​Honda Research Institute USA (HRI-US) is seeking a motivated Human-AI Collaboration Research Intern to support a cutting-edge project on multiplayer user study data collection. The intern will contribute to the design and execution ...
San Jose, CA
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Research Intern: Quantum Cognition

Job Number: P25INT-12
​Honda Research Institute USA (HRI-US) is seeking a a self-motivated Quantum Cognition Research Intern to join our interdisciplinary research team. The successful candidate will engage in the development of computational models ...
San Jose, CA
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Research Intern: Multi-Modal Machine Learning in ...

Job Number: P25INT-13
Honda Research Institute USA (HRI-US) is seeking a research intern to advance group state sensing research. In human-only and human-AI teams, there are key characteristics such as group performance, team cohesion, leadership role, ...
San Jose, CA
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Research Intern: Robot-Mediated Group Human Robot ...

Job Number: P25INT-14
​Honda Research Institute USA (HRI-US) is seeking a research intern to join our interdisciplinary team, working at the intersection of generative AI, robotics, machine learning, and psychology. At its core, this role focuses on ...
San Jose, CA
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Research Intern: Perception for Marine Robotics ...

Job Number: P25INT-15
​Honda Research Institute USA (HRI-US) is seeking a self-motivated research intern to join our marine team in advancing perception technologies for marine robotics. As an intern, you'll be working with a team of engineers in developing ...
San Jose, CA
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Research Intern: Motion Planning and Control for ...

Job Number: P25INT-16
​Honda Research Institute USA (HRI-US) is seeking a motivated and innovative research intern to develop and validate motion planning and control algorithms for marine robots. Reponsibilities include implementing algorithms, verifying ...
San Jose, CA
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Research Intern: Online Learning for Dexterous Manipulation ...

Job Number: P25INT-17
​Honda Research Institute USA (HRI-US) is seeking a self-motivated PhD student to join our Intelligence Robotics Research Division as a summer intern. Our research focuses on online learning for dexterous manipulation in real-world ...
San Jose, CA
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Research Intern: Tactile-Aware Multi-Modal Foundation ...

Job Number: P25INT-18
​Honda Research Institute USA (HRI-US) is seeking a passionate individual to contribute to the development of tactile-aware multi-modal foundation models for robotic dexterous manipulation. The project investigates how large models ...
San Jose, CA
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Research Intern: Manipulation Intelligence

Job Number: P25INT-19
​Honda Research Institute USA (HRI-US) is seeking a self-motivated intern to advance the manipulation intelligence of multi-fingered robot hands. Our research focuses on highly dexterous, long-horizon manipulation tasks that challenge ...
San Jose, CA
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Research Intern: Semantics Detection for Robotics ...

Job Number: P25INT-20
​Honda Research Institute USA (HRI-US) is seeking a self-motivated PhD student to build semantic feature detection for objects and environments—attributes, affordances, relations, and 6-DoF poses—that a vision-language model (VLM) ...
San Jose, CA
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Research Intern: Physical Intelligence

Job Number: P25INT-21
​Honda Research Institute USA (HRI-US) is seeking a self-motivated PhD student to join our Intelligence Robotics Research Division as a summer intern. The successful candidate will contribute to the core areas of physical intelligence, ...
San Jose, CA
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Research Intern: Human Biomechanical Modeling

Job Number: P25INT-22
​Honda Research Institute USA (HRI-US) is seeking a self-motivated PhD student to join our Intelligence Robotics Research Division as a summer intern and help with development of computational human biomechanical models for safe ...
San Jose, CA
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Research Intern: Agent-Based Autonomous Vehicles ...

Job Number: P25INT-23
Honda Research Institute USA (HRI-US) is seeking a candidate for a project that focuses on agentic ai for autonomous vehicles. The task will involve developing a reasoning agent that can respond to unstructured user requests and ...
Mountain View, CA
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Research Intern: Interaction-Aware Motion Planning ...

Job Number: P25INT-24
Honda Research Institute USA (HRI-US) is seeking a candidate to focus on researching interaction-aware motion planning and decision-making algorithms for autonomous driving (AD) applications. Autonomous vehicles frequently interact ...
Mountain View, CA
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Research Intern: Vision-Based Reinforcement Learning ...

Job Number: P25INT-25
Honda Research Institute USA (HRI-US) is seeking a talented and motivated PhD-level research intern to explore the integration of data-driven learning methods, such as deep reinforcement learning (DRL), with formal control techniques ...
Mountain View, CA
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Research Intern: Interaction-Aware Behavior Planning ...

Job Number: P25INT-26
​Honda Research Institute USA (HRI-US) is seeking a talented and motivated PhD-level research intern to explore interaction-aware behavior planning for autonomous driving. The intern will design and evaluate high-level decision-making ...
Mountain View, CA
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Research Intern: Robotics Software Engineering

Job Number: P25INT-27
Honda Research Institute USA (HRI-US) is seeking a motivated and detail oriented Robotics Software Engineering Intern to work on developing reliable software modules for autonomous driving and cooperative mobility research. Work ...
Mountain View, CA
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Research Intern: End-to-End Autonomous Driving with ...

Job Number: P25INT-28
​Honda Research Institute USA (HRI-US) is seeking a self-motivated researcher to join our Mobility Research team. This individual will contribute to the development of efficient generative models for end-to-end autonomous driving. ...
Mountain View, CA
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Research Intern: Machine Learning Prediction and ...

Job Number: P25INT-29
Honda Research Institute USA (HRI-US) is seeking a This project focuses on generative models for cooperative mobility. You will explore machine learning methods for traffic agent behavior prediction. The project involves research ...
Mountain View, CA
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Research Intern: Multi-Robot Task Planning Using ...

Job Number: P25INT-30
Honda Research Institute USA (HRI-US) is seeking a self-motivated Research Intern to join our Cooperative-Intelligence Mobility Research (CMR) group. This internship offers the unique opportunity to work at the intersection of task ...
Mountain View, CA
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Research Intern: Flexible Electronic Materials Integration ...

Job Number: P25INT-31
Honda Research Institute USA (HRI-US) is seeking a innovative intern with a materials science or electrical engineering background, with a focus in electronic materials, to develop flexible and stretchable electronic devices. An ...
Columbus, OH
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Research Intern: Low-Dimensional Materials Synthesis ...

Job Number: P25INT-32
Honda Research Institute USA (HRI-US) is seeking a motivated Research Intern to join our materials science team working at the forefront of 2D material synthesis and device physics. The project focuses on developing layer-controlled ...
Columbus, OH
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Research Intern: Fuel Cell Nano-Catalyst Synthesis ...

Job Number: P25INT-33
​Honda Research Institute USA (HRI-US) is seeking a summer intern to join our Material Science team focused on nanocatalyst synthesis for fuel cell applications. Interns will assist in the preparation of Pt-based alloy catalysts, ...
Columbus, OH
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