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

Research Intern: Polymer Composite

Job Number: P25INT-52
Honda Research Institute USA (HRI-US) is seeking an innovative intern with a background in Materials Science, Chemical Engineering, or a related discipline to contribute to the development of advanced photocatalytic membrane structures ...
Columbus, OH
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Research Intern: Learning Based Motion Planning ...

Job Number: P25INT-53
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. Contribute ...
Mountain View, CA
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Research Intern: End-to-End Autonomous Driving

Job Number: P25INT-54
​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: Robust Planning

Job Number: P25INT-55
Honda Research Institute USA (HRI-US) is seeking a research engineer to develop and implement a novel planning framework. This position requires understanding state-of-the-art planning algorithms and improving their performance ...
Mountain View, CA
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Research Intern: Semantic-Aware Interaction and ...

Job Number: P25INT-56
​Honda Research Institute USA (HRI-US) is seeking a research intern to develop semantic-aware interaction and behavior planning methods for autonomous driving. The intern will investigate how scene context, agent intent, interaction ...
Mountain View, CA
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Research Intern: Closed-loop E2E Driving

Job Number: P25INT-57
​Honda Research Institute USA (HRI-US) is seeking a talented and motivated PhD-level research intern to explore methods to improve closed-loop planning performance — spanning policy learning, trajectory generation, and closed-loop ...
Mountain View, CA
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Research Intern: Human Action Understanding from ...

Job Number: P25INT-58
Honda Research Institute USA (HRI-US) is seeking a highly motivated and independent intern to join our team in advancing the frontiers of human action understanding. This role focuses on temporal video understanding in long, untrimmed ...
San Jose, CA
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Research Intern: Test-Time Adaptation For Embodied ...

Job Number: P25INT-59
Honda Research Institute USA (HRI-US) is seeking a highly motivated intern to investigate test-time adaptation for embodied AI. This project focuses on how evidence gathered during deployment can determine what an agent should revise, ...
San Jose, CA
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Research Intern: Meta-Cognition and Internal Mechanisms ...

Job Number: P25INT-60
​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 and meta-cognitive AI agents built on multimodal foundation models. ...
San Jose, CA
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Research Intern: Proficiency Estimation in Procedural ...

Job Number: P25INT-62
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: Multimodal AI for Collective State ...

Job Number: P25INT-63
​Honda Research Institute USA (HRI-US) is seeking a research intern to develop theory-informed multimodal learning methods for understanding collective states and emerging norms in human and human-AI teams. The intern will connect ...
San Jose, CA
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Research Intern: Human-AI Group Interaction

Job Number: P25INT-64
​Honda Research Institute USA (HRI-US) is seeking a Human-AI Group Interaction Research Intern to study how people collaborate with AI agents in team settings. The intern will support research on AI teammates that can act as peers, ...
San Jose, CA
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Research Intern: Computational Social Science

Job Number: P25INT-65
​Honda Research Institute USA (HRI-US) is seeking a research intern working at the intersection of computational social science and artificial intelligence. The successful candidate will develop and evaluate computational models ...
San Jose, CA
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Research Intern: LLM-enabled Multi-Agent Social ...

Job Number: P25INT-66
Honda Research Institute USA (HRI-US) is seeking a research intern to develop next-generation social and multi-agent simulation methods using state of the art AI methods, including large language model (LLM) agents. The goal of ...
San Jose, CA
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Research Intern: Vehicle Dynamics and Simulation ...

Job Number: P25INT-67
​Honda Research Institute USA (HRI-US) is seeking a self-motivated research intern to develop the marine vehicle capability of our Unreal Engine 5 simulator. You will set up and tune vessel hydrodynamics and multi-engine propulsion ...
San Jose, CA
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Research Intern: Policy Learning and Action Grounding ...

Job Number: P25INT-69
​Honda Research Institute USA (HRI-US) is seeking a self-motivated research intern to advance policy learning and action grounding for multimodal embodied agents. The intern will investigate methods that enable intelligent agents ...
San Jose, CA
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Research Intern: Spatial Reasoning in Long Videos ...

Job Number: P25INT-70
​Honda Research Institute USA (HRI-US) is seeking a Research Intern in Spatial Reasoning for Long Videos to explore new approaches for enabling AI systems to build, maintain, and reason about spatial representations of the physical ...
San Jose, CA
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Research Intern: Hand Pose-Language Representation ...

Job Number: P25INT-71
Honda Research Institute USA (HRI-US) is seeking a self-motivated and independent intern to join our research team working on multimodal machine learning for egocentric perception and skill understanding. This role will focus on ...
San Jose, CA
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Research Intern: Vision-Based Assessment of Human ...

Job Number: P25INT-72
​Honda Research Institute USA (HRI-US) is seeking a highly motivated and independent intern to work on human action understanding and proficiency estimation in procedural videos. This role centers on recovering physical interaction ...
San Jose, CA
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Research Intern: Catalyst Synthesis

Job Number: P25INT-73
Honda Research Institute USA (HRI-US) is seeking a spring intern to join our Material Science team focused on nano catalyst synthesis for fuel cell applications. Interns will assist in the preparation of Pt-based alloy catalysts, ...
Columbus, OH
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Research Intern: Online Mapping and Semantic Scene ...

Job Number: P26INT-01
Honda Research Institute USA (HRI-US) is seeking a Ph.D. research intern to develop online mapping and semantic scene understanding for autonomous parking. The intern will combine onboard camera observations and vehicle pose information ...
Mountain View, CA
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Research Intern: Motion Planning and Decision Making ...

Job Number: P26INT-02
Honda Research Institute USA (HRI-US) is seeking a self-motivated research intern to focus on interaction-aware motion planning and decision-making under perception noise, state uncertainty, and prediction uncertainty for autonomous ...
Mountain View, CA
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Research Intern: Gaussian Splatting SLAM

Job Number: P26INT-03
Honda Research Institute USA (HRI-US) is seeking a research intern to develop and implement Gaussian splatting (GS) simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) for mobile robots. This research requires an understanding of state-of-the-art ...
Mountain View, CA
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Research Intern: LLM Reasoning for Autonomous Driving ...

Job Number: P26INT-04
Honda Research Institute USA (HRI-US) is seeking a self-motivated research intern to work on LLM-guided reasoning and behavior adaptation for autonomous driving. This individual will develop methods to incorporate LLM-based reasoning ...
Mountain View, CA
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Research Intern: Learning Based Motion Planning ...

Job Number: P26INT-05
Honda Research Institute USA (HRI-US) is seeking a motivated and detail-oriented research intern to develop reliable software modules for autonomous driving and cooperative mobility research. The intern will work on generative models ...
Mountain View, CA
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Research Intern: Real-Time End-to-End Autonomous ...

Job Number: P26INT-06
Honda Research Institute USA (HRI-US) is seeking a self-motivated research intern to join our CI-Mobility Research team. This individual will contribute to the development of efficient generative and autoregressive models for end-to-end ...
Mountain View, CA
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Research Intern: Closed-Loop E2E Driving

Job Number: P26INT-07
Honda Research Institute USA (HRI-US) is seeking a talented and motivated research intern to explore methods for improving closed-loop planning performance, spanning policy learning, trajectory generation, and closed-loop training ...
Mountain View, CA
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Research Intern: Heterogeneous Multi-Robot Task ...

Job Number: P26INT-08
Honda Research Institute USA (HRI-US) is seeking a self-motivated research intern to join our CI-Mobility Research team. Our research aims to enable robot teams to collaborate closely with one another and with humans in shared workspaces. ...
Mountain View, CA
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Research Intern: Multimodal Action and Skill Understanding ...

Job Number: P26INT-09
Honda Research Institute USA (HRI-US) is seeking a highly motivated and independent research intern to join our team working on human action and skill understanding in long procedural activities. This internship builds on our research ...
San Jose, CA
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Research Intern: Human-Object Interaction Learning ...

Job Number: P26INT-10
Honda Research Institute USA (HRI-US) is seeking a self-motivated and independent research intern to join our team researching multimodal machine learning for human-object interaction understanding. This role will focus on developing ...
San Jose, CA
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Research Intern: Life-Long Embodied Spatial Reasoning ...

Job Number: P26INT-11
Honda Research Institute USA (HRI-US) is seeking a research intern in lifelong embodied spatial reasoning to explore new approaches for enabling embodied agents to continually build, update, and reason over spatial knowledge of ...
San Jose, CA
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Research Intern: Distributional Foundations of Multi-Agent ...

Job Number: P26INT-12
Honda Research Institute USA (HRI-US) is seeking a self-motivated research intern to investigate the mathematical foundations of human-robot collaboration. The intern will develop methods for quantifying when and how much multi-agent ...
San Jose, CA
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Research Intern: Action Proficiency Understanding ...

Job Number: P26INT-13
Honda Research Institute USA (HRI-US) is seeking a highly motivated and independent Ph.D. research intern to join our team in advancing research in human action understanding and computer vision for long videos. The project focuses ...
San Jose, CA
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Research Intern: Self-Aware and Adaptive Multi-Modal ...

Job Number: P26INT-14
Honda Research Institute USA (HRI-US) is seeking a self-motivated research intern to develop and advance adaptive multimodal foundation model-based agents that learn from human demonstrations, interaction, and their own task experience. ...
San Jose, CA
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Research Intern: Policy Learning and Action Grounding ...

Job Number: P26INT-15
Honda Research Institute USA (HRI-US) is seeking a self-motivated research intern to advance policy learning and action grounding for multimodal embodied agents. The intern will investigate methods that enable intelligent agents ...
San Jose, CA
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Research Intern: Test-Time Adaptation for Embodied ...

Job Number: P26INT-16
Honda Research Institute USA (HRI-US) is seeking a self-motivated research intern to investigate test-time adaptation for embodied AI. The intern will investigate how evidence gathered during deployment can determine what an agent ...
San Jose, CA
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Research Intern: Machine Learning for Modeling Human-AI ...

Job Number: P26INT-17
Honda Research Institute USA (HRI-US) is seeking a research intern to develop machine learning models for understanding how interactions evolve within groups of three or more human and AI participants. The intern will design, implement, ...
San Jose, CA
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Research Intern: Multimodal Learning for Human-AI ...

Job Number: P26INT-18
Honda Research Institute USA (HRI-US) is seeking a research intern to develop multimodal fusion methods for understanding human and AI behavior in group interactions. The intern will investigate how information from language, speech, ...
San Jose, CA
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Research Intern: Human-AI Group Interaction

Job Number: P26INT-19
Honda Research Institute USA (HRI-US) is seeking a research intern to study how people collaborate with AI agents in multi-party team settings. The intern will support research on AI teammates that can act as peers, facilitators, ...
San Jose, CA
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Research Intern: Computational Social Science

Job Number: P26INT-20
Honda Research Institute USA (HRI-US) is seeking a self-motivated computational social science intern to join our Human and Social Science Division. This individual will develop and evaluate computational models of communities to ...
San Jose, CA
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Research Intern: LLM-Enabled Multi-Agent Social ...

Job Number: P26INT-21
Honda Research Institute USA (HRI-US) is seeking a research intern to develop next-generation social and multi-agent simulation methods using state-of-the-art AI techniques, including large language model (LLM) agents. The goal ...
San Jose, CA
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Research Intern: Embodied Interactions for Groups ...

Job Number: P26INT-22
Honda Research Institute USA (HRI-US) is seeking a research intern to design and study embodied learning experiences for small groups that include AI agents. The research, grounded in work on embodied learning and skill development, ...
San Jose, CA
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Research Intern: Scaling Multimodal Robot Policy ...

Job Number: P26INT-23
Honda Research Institute USA (HRI-US) is seeking a self-motivated research intern to advance robot policy learning for multi-fingered dexterous manipulation using multimodal sensory data. The internship will explore generalizable ...
San Jose, CA
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Research Intern: Intelligent Multimodal Representation ...

Job Number: P26INT-24
Honda Research Institute USA (HRI-US) is seeking a self-motivated research intern to advance multimodal perception and learning for dexterous manipulation using multi-fingered robot hands. The internship project focuses on contact-rich ...
San Jose, CA
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Research Intern: Physical Human-Robot Interaction ...

Job Number: P26INT-25
Honda Research Institute USA (HRI-US) is seeking a self-motivated Ph.D. student to join our Intelligence Robotics Research Division as a summer intern. The intern will develop and deploy algorithms that enable safe and comfortable ...
San Jose, CA
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Research Intern: Robust Robotic Manipulation

Job Number: P26INT-26
Honda Research Institute USA (HRI-US) is seeking a self-motivated Ph.D. student to join the Intelligence Robotics Research Division as a summer intern. The intern will conduct research on robust, contact-rich dexterous manipulation, ...
San Jose, CA
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Research Intern: Online Learning for Dexterous Manipulation ...

Job Number: P26INT-27
Honda Research Institute USA (HRI-US) is seeking a self-motivated Ph.D. 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: High-Fidelity Robotics Simulation ...

Job Number: P26INT-28
Honda Research Institute USA (HRI-US) is seeking a self-motivated Ph.D. student to join our Intelligence Robotics Research Division. The intern will conduct research in high-fidelity robotics simulation, focusing on methods that ...
San Jose, CA
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Research Intern: Disturbance-Resilient Motion Control ...

Job Number: P26INT-29
Honda Research Institute USA (HRI-US) is seeking a motivated and innovative research intern to develop and validate disturbance-resilient control algorithms for marine robots operating under wind, waves, and currents. The core focus ...
San Jose, CA
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Research Intern: Camera-Based Perception for Marine ...

Job Number: P26INT-30
Honda Research Institute USA (HRI-US) is seeking a self-motivated research intern to join our Intelligence Marine Robotics team in advancing camera-based perception for marine robots. Depending on your interests and project needs, ...
San Jose, CA
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Research Intern: Nanomaterials Synthesis

Job Number: P26INT-31
Honda Research Institute USA, Inc. (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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