Hyundai America Technical Center, Inc.
Hyundai Research & Development
AI Engineering Intern | ISW & DevOps
May – Aug 2026
Partnered with Amazon’s voice team on production integration and pre-release validation of in-vehicle voice features.
VERDICT
My intern project: an evaluation harness that assesses whether production voice assistants are ready to ship in vehicles.
- Scorers
- 31
- Dimensions
- 98
Earned adoption and support from Red Hat for use by multiple carmakers.
DevOps
Contributed to HATCI’s OpenShift development platform for engineers across Hyundai, Kia, and Genesis.
- Engineers
- 1,000+
Automating hardware-in-the-loop testing.
Technical Details & Collaboration
Evaluation & Hardware
- Drives multi-turn spoken conversations with frontier in-vehicle models, including a head unit leased through Jumpstarter.
- Grades every turn with 31 scorers across 98 dimensions, from deterministic checks to Prometheus-2, G-Eval, and FLASK judges.
- Decides via adaptive resampling, cluster-robust bootstrap, and equivalence tests against preregistered margins; refuses without evidence.
Platform & Collaboration
- Automated hardware testing, CI pipelines, and GitOps delivery: Tekton CI with Argo CD and Ansible, Cuttlefish device emulation, and Yocto embedded Linux build/debug tooling.
- Authored the team's technical training materials on AI development and AI safety, then co-taught engineers to use the tooling properly: agentic loops, agents, and evaluation practice with safety in mind.
