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Vehicle Model Simulation Intern

Vehicle Model Simulation Intern

CompanyWaabi
LocationToronto, ON, Canada
Salary$Not Provided – $Not Provided
TypeInternship
DegreesBachelor’s, Master’s, PhD
Experience LevelInternship

Requirements

  • Bachelors or MS/PhD degree in Computer Science, Engineering, AI, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Robotics and/or similar technical field(s) of study.
  • Proficient in reading and coding in Python.
  • Open-minded and collaborative team player with willingness to help others.
  • Passionate about self-driving technologies, solving hard problems, and creating innovative solutions.
  • Demonstrated research/software engineering experience: through previous internships, work experience, coding competitions, and/or research projects and papers.
  • Strong quantitative background and coursework in or working knowledge of vehicle dynamics, signal processing, and data analysis.

Responsibilities

  • Improve the current actuator models (steering, brake, throttle, and engine brake) to better represent their current behaviour.
  • Look into better modeling of vehicle transmission system for better offline validation of the motion control system.
  • Investigate switching to higher fidelity dynamics models and compare them to current models.
  • Get new data, learn the parameters, and verify new model’s ability to represent the vehicle’s performance.
  • Be part of a team of multidisciplinary Research Scientists and Engineers using an AI-first approach to enable safe self-driving at scale.
  • Design, implement, train, and optimize vehicle dynamics and actuator models in simulation.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Previous experience working in autonomous vehicle sphere especially in simulation.
  • Experience with tractor/trailer dynamics modeling and simulation.
  • Machine learning experience.