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Applied Scientist Intern, PhD (Summer 2027)

Lyft is hiring for Applied Scientist Intern, PhD (Summer 2027) in San Francisco, CA. Intern level. First seen September 29, 2026; open as of November 13, 2026. Jobs taken straight from company career pages — no aggregator in between.

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Company
Lyft
Where
San Francisco, CA
Level
Intern
First seen
September 29, 2026
Listed via
Greenhouse

What the posting says

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…

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