Zoox’s internship program provides hands-on experiences with state of the art technology, mentorship from some of the industry's brightest minds, and the opportunity to play a part in our success. Internships at Zoox are reserved for those who demonstrate outstanding academic performance, activities outside their course work, aptitude, curiosity, and a passion for Zoox's mission.

As a Motion Planning Intern, you may be matched with one of the following teams:

On the Collision Avoidance Systems team, you will build and optimize core autonomy software including planning algorithms, collision avoidance systems, trajectory generation and validation, or real-time decision-making systems. Implement efficient data structures for tree search, develop cost evaluation functions, or work on CAS components like trajectory validators, collision checkers, and safety perception systems. Write high-performance C++ code that runs on our vehicles.

On the Fail Operational Planner team, you will explore ways for Planner to continue operating effectively, even in the presence of degraded capabilities or limited failures. The focus of the team includes developing behavioral and motion planning capabilities in degraded state to improve trip progress metrics, and correspondingly a better customer experience. In this role, you will develop algorithms to implement new behaviors or improve upon the performance of existing ones for specific failure modes while collaborating with a diverse group of experts including Planner, Perception, Prediction, and Hardware.

On the Framework & Search team, you will explore ways to improve our planner’s strategic decision making capabilities. We model long horizon concerns so that our planner can make informed decisions such as when best to lane change when following a route. In this role you will develop algorithms to improve the fidelity of our long horizon motion planning models. This will involve collaborating with other teams, simulation-based and real world validation, and creating new introspection tools.