Human-Centered AI Intern: Human-Computer Interaction
Toyota Research InstituteLos Altos, California
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Posted April 20, 2026
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Job Description
A Human-Centered AI internship focused on investigating how organizations manage emotional labor in workplace conversations and the informal adoption of AI tools, involving conceptual work, analysis, and system design within a multidisciplinary team at Toyota Research Institute.
Key Responsibilities
- Investigate how organizations produce, distribute, and manage emotional labor in difficult workplace conversations.
- Analyze informal adoption of AI tools in organizational support structures.
- Conduct conceptual, quantitative, and qualitative analysis related to organizational behavior and sociotechnical systems.
- Design systems and prototypes to address challenges in emotional labor and AI adoption within organizations.
- Participate in interdisciplinary meetings and strategy discussions to connect research with business impact.
Requirements
- Applicants must have strong methodological training and interest in collective wellbeing, with educational background in fields such as human-computer interaction, computer sciences, affective computing, social sciences, organizational behavior, sociology, behavioral economics, human factors, or related disciplines.
- Candidates should have experience in conceptual work, quantitative and/or qualitative analysis, and system design, with an emphasis on multilevel thinking.
- Candidates must be generalists and flexible problem solvers, with the ability to build prototype solutions and take on high-risk, high-reward challenges outside of traditional academic research settings.
- Candidates should have experience or interest in investigating 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.
- Candidates should have experience or familiarity with research terrains such as informal AI adoption, organizational gaps, organizational production of emotional labor, informal peer learning networks, and typology of difficult conversations.
- Candidates must be willing to participate in all Human-Centered AI Division meetings, broader TRI events, and engage in strategy discussions about how their internship research connects to business impact at Toyota.
- Applicants should be available for a paid 12-week internship, with the role being hybrid and in-office.
- For California-based roles, the pay range at commencement of employment is expected to be between $45 and $65 per hour, with the actual offer depending on experience, skills, job-related knowledge, and market location.
Benefits & Perks
Paid 12-week internship
Hybrid in-office role
Compensation range of $45 to $65 per hour (depending on experience, skills, and location)
Medical insurance
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
Paid time off including holiday pay and sick time
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