Waymo
2027 Summer Intern, MS/PhD, Machine Learning, Driver Refinement Foundations
San Francisco, CA, USA +1 · Internship · Posted Oct 23, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco, CA, USA
San Francisco, 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 tools for improving autonomous driving behavior, including data curation, model training experiments, and data-generation pipelines.
What you'll do
- Mine and curate samples from large driving-data collections.
- Use large language models and world foundation models for reasoning, decision-making, and multimodal generation.
- Build data-generation pipelines and design and evaluate model-training experiments.
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 with model evaluation and metrics, and strong software engineering principles.
Nice to have
- Some understanding of SQL; 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
AI focus
Apply large language models and world foundation models to reasoning, decision-making, and multimodal generation; support model training and evaluation.
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