Waymo
2027 Summer Intern, MS/PhD, Machine Learning, Driver Refinement Foundations
Mountain View, CA, USA +1 · Internship · Posted Oct 1, 2026
- Location
- Mountain View, CA, USA
Mountain View, California, United States - Education
- Currently enrolled in a graduate program (Master's or PhD) in Computer Science or a related technical field.
About the job
Develop data-driven and heuristic methods and platforms to improve autonomous driving behavior, using driving data and multimodal generative models.
What you'll do
- Mine and curate samples from large driving-data datasets.
- Use large language and world foundation models for reasoning, decision-making, and multimodal generation; optimize multimodal generative models using RLFT and explore reward modeling.
- Design evaluation metrics and improve them through iteration.
What they ask for
- Currently enrolled in a Master's or PhD program in Computer Science or a related technical field.
- Strong problem-solving and programming skills in Python and/or C++.
- Good understanding of Jax/Pytorch.
- Experience developing models and evaluating models or developing metrics.
Nice to have
- Some understanding of SQL (preferred, not required).
- Previous internship experience; PhD preferred.
Pay
$70 — $70 USD (base hourly pay, Master's); $85 — $85 USD (base hourly pay, PhD)
Tools
Python, C++, Jax, Pytorch, SQL, large language models, world foundation models, RLFT
AI focus
Apply large language and world foundation models to reasoning, decision-making, and multimodal generation; optimize multimodal generative models using RLFT and explore reward modeling.
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