2027 Summer Intern, MS/PhD, Weather Perception
Waymo · San Francisco, CA, USA · Mountain View (US-MTV-EMF680)
Roboticsonsiteintern$146k–$177k
At a glance
Highlights
- Build perception for rain, fog, snow, ice and degraded roads for Waymo Driver.
- Design new features and retrain ML models for fleetwide safe driving behavior.
- Use vision language models to handle long-tail driving situations onboard.
Ideal candidate
An MS or PhD student passionate about autonomous driving who loves tackling data-scarce perception challenges and collaborating across teams to make vehicles safe in harsh weather.
Requirements
- MS or PhD in Computer Science, Robotics or equivalent
- Experience with machine learning applications, including transformer applications and ML evaluation techniques
- Experience with Python programming
- Experience with reading and implementing ML algorithms from academic papers
- Familiarity with Tensorflow or Pytorch or JAX
- hiring process
- Accepting resumes on a rolling basis until filled; apply individually to top 3 roles of interest.
Lab profile
About Waymo
Autonomous driving technology company building the Waymo Driver for fully autonomous ride-hailing.
What they build
- Waymo Driver
- Fully autonomous ride-hail service
Known for
- Large-scale driving simulation
- Simulation realism
- Quantitative evaluations
- Onboard autonomy models
Key facts
- Founded in 2009
- Started as the Google Self-Driving Car Project
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