About the job
At Toyota Research Institute (TRI), we’re on a mission to improve the quality of human life. We’re developing new tools and capabilities to amplify the human experience. To lead this transformative shift in mobility, we’ve built a world-class team advancing the state of the art in AI, robotics, driving, and material sciences. This is a paid 12-week internship opportunity and is a hybrid, in-office role.
Responsibilities
We are looking for a Human-Computer Interaction (or similar) intern to investigate how organizations produce, distribute, and manage the emotional labor of difficult workplace conversations, and what the informal adoption of AI tools in this space reveals about systemic gaps in organizational support structures. This project, situated within our conversational AI research initiative, engages foundational questions at the intersection of organizational behavior, sociotechnical systems, and AI. The project will involve conceptual work, quantitative and/or qualitative analysis, and system design, with an emphasis on multilevel thinking. Research terrains guiding the work include: Informal AI adoption and organizational gaps; Organizational production of emotional labor; Informal peer learning networks; Typology of difficult conversations.
Qualifications
Minimum
No minimum qualifications listed.
Preferred
The strongest candidates will be generalists and flexible problem solvers. This internship is well-suited for candidates who are excited to build prototype solutions and take on high-risk, high-reward challenges outside of the traditional academic research setting. Bonus points for experience in Future-of-Work research or organizational behavior.