Applied Scientist Intern, PhD (Summer 2027) is open at Lyft in San Francisco, CA. Posted on Sep 28, 2026, and still on Lyft’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
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…
The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on Lyft’s careers page.
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