Waymo
2027 Summer Intern, MS/PhD, Perception, Machine Learning
Mountain View, CA, USA +1 · Internship · Posted Sep 25, 2026
- Location
- Mountain View, CA, USA
Mountain View, California, United States - Education
- Enrolled in a PhD program in Computer Science, Robotics, or a similar technical field, or enrolled in a master's program with a strong publication record.
About the job
Develop, train, and evaluate multimodal perception machine-learning models for Waymo’s autonomous driving system using real-world driving data.
What you'll do
- Design and implement camera, radar, lidar, and audio perception models for tasks such as 3D detection, tracking, occupancy detection, and segmentation.
- Train and evaluate ML models on Waymo driving-log data.
- Work with large-scale ML infrastructure and collaborate in a team environment.
What they ask for
- Enrolled in a PhD program in Computer Science, Robotics, or a similar technical field, or enrolled in a master's program with a strong publication record.
- Experience in Python.
- Experience building ML models with JAX, PyTorch or Tensorflow.
Nice to have
- Strong record of high-quality ML/CV research, including publications at listed top-tier conferences or journals.
- Experience in object detection, segmentation, multiple-object tracking, audio perception, or occupancy detection.
Pay
$70 — $70 USD (hourly Masters pay); $85 — $85 USD (hourly PhD pay)
Tools
Python, JAX, PyTorch, Tensorflow, camera, radar, lidar, audio
AI focus
Developing and training multimodal perception models, including detection, tracking, segmentation, occupancy detection, foundation models, and self-supervised learning through forecasting.
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