2027 Summer Intern, PhD, Machine Learning, Simulation Realism

Software Engineering builds the brains of Waymo's fully autonomous driving technology. Our software allows the Waymo Driver to perceive the world around it, make the right decision for every situation, and deliver people safely to their destinations. We think deeply and solve complex technical challenges in areas like robotics, perception, decision-making and deep learning, while collaborating with hardware and systems engineers. If you’re a software engineer or researcher who’s curious and passionate about Level 4 autonomous driving, we'd like to meet you. 

Waymo interns partner with leaders in the industry on projects that create impact to the company. We believe learning is a two-way street: applying your knowledge while providing you with opportunities to expand your skill-set. Interns are an important part of our culture and our recruiting pipeline. Join us at Waymo for a fun and rewarding internship!

• Develop controllable & realistic adversarial agents for more efficient simulation based evaluation and deploy them in the Waymo Simulator
• Iterate on the post-training recipes for the state-of-the-art Foundation Models and Waymo World Models

• Currently pursuing a PhD degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Robotics, or a related technical field
• Proficient in Python Coding  and Tensor Manipulation (using Pytorch / NumPy / JAX / TensorFlow / etc.)
• Experience with Machine Learning and Deep Learning

• Hands-on experience with post-training and reinforcement learning
• Hands-on experience with attention mechanisms, diffusion and / or autoregressive architectures
• Experience with autonomous driving or robotics

Note: This will be a hybrid onsite internship position. We will accept resumes on a rolling basis until the role is filled. To be in consideration for multiple roles, you will need to apply to each one individually - please apply to the top 3 roles you are interested in