2027 Summer Intern, PhD, Machine Learning Research, Planning/Prediction
Waymo · Mountain View, CA, USA · Mountain View (US-MTV-EMF680)
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At a glance
Highlights
- Develop ML models that predict the future world state for the Waymo Driver.
- Help navigate complex environments safely using large-scale real driving data.
- Join technology behind 10M+ rider-only trips and 100M autonomous miles.
What they offer
- Competitive compensation packages with housing/relocation bonus (if applicable)
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Fun intern events and networking opportunities
- Free breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks
- Free access to Google shuttles
- Onsite gym
Ideal candidate
A curious PhD researcher passionate about Level 4 autonomy who loves turning large-scale data into robust real-world behavior and collaborating across research and engineering.
Requirements
- Currently pursuing a PhD degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Robotics, or related field
- Experience with deep learning, or reinforcement learning
- Hands-on experience with modern deep learning libraries (eg: TensorFlow, JAX, Pytorch) with basic programming skills (eg: Python, C/C++)
- Strong analytical and debugging skills
- Publications in top-tier conferences such as ICML, NeurIPS, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ICLR, IROS, CoRL, ACL, or EMNLP
- Prior software development or research industry experience (including internships)
- hiring process
- Resumes accepted on a rolling basis until the role is filled; apply individually to top 3 roles for multiple-role consideration.
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