# Motion Planning Engineer Intern - PhD at DiDi Global

- Company: [DiDi Global](https://didiglobal.com)
- Location: San Jose, CA
- Type: Internship · Internship
- Posted: 2026-09-12
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/didi/jobs/8198303
- Page: https://newgrad.ai/jobs/motion-planning-engineer-intern-phd-b8b44917

## Posting

What you'll do:

- Build decision-making systems for autonomous vehicles handling lane transitions and vehicle interactions.
- Create pathfinding algorithms that combine spatial reasoning with adaptive speed planning.
- Establish objective functions weighing safety, passenger comfort, and operational efficiency for path selection.
- Validate and troubleshoot performance across simulations and production datasets.

What they're looking for:

- PhD recently finished or finishing in Robotics, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent.
- Prior work in route algorithms, decision-making systems, path optimization, or interaction modeling.
- Peer-reviewed papers accepted at premier venues including RSS, ICRA, IROS, CVPR, NeurIPS, CoRL.
- Proficiency coding complex, low-latency systems in C++.

Pay and perks:

- $46 per hour for interns.
- Access to intern-level benefits package.
- Strong performers eligible for permanent role conversion.

Summarized by newgrad.ai from DiDi Global's public posting. Check the original for full details before you apply.

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