Applied Scientist Intern, PhD (Summer 2027)
Lyft · San Francisco
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- Company
- Lyft
- Location
- San Francisco
- Employment type
- Internship
- Salary
- $64-$68
- Posted
- September 28, 2026
About this job
At Lyft, our purpose is to serve and connect. We aim to achieve this by cultivating a work environment where all team members belong and have the opportunity to thrive. The Lyft Rider Science team is seeking an Applied Scientist intern to develop next-generation user simulation methods using state of the art AI methods. The goal of this project is to develop and validate LLM-based Rider Agents that can serve as behavioral proxies for real riders, and study when agent simulations can provide reliable signal about rider responses to product interventions before online experimentation. You will build agent-based simulation systems grounded in real rider context and behavioral data, evaluate their fidelity against observed rider behavior and historical experiments, and study where these…
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