Drimva

Waymo

2027 Summer Intern, MS/PhD, Perception, Model Lifecycle

Mountain View, CA, USA +1 · Internship · Posted Oct 12, 2026

Location
Mountain View, CA, USA
Mountain View, California, United States
Education
Currently enrolled in an MS or PhD program in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Robotics, or a related field.

About the job

Own an end-to-end machine-learning project to study how training-data choices affect perception model quality and help apply findings to production training.

What you'll do

  • Build and refine datasets from large-scale camera, lidar, and radar driving data; train and evaluate perception models.
  • Design experiments and develop metrics to identify model failures and the data that could address them.
  • Analyze results and share findings with ML engineers and research scientists to support production model training.

What they ask for

  • Currently enrolled in an MS or PhD program in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Robotics, or a related field.
  • Hands-on experience training and evaluating deep learning models in JAX, PyTorch, or TensorFlow.
  • Hands-on experience with ML data work, such as dataset building, data curation, labeling, or data quality analysis.
  • Strong Python programming skills and ability to design controlled experiments and draw sound conclusions from quantitative results.

Nice to have

  • Experience with end-to-end ML projects, data-centric ML, perception tasks, or large-scale distributed data tools.
  • Publications at ML or computer vision venues, or passion for data-centric AI and autonomous driving.

Pay

$70 — $70 USD (base hourly pay, Masters); $85 — $85 USD (base hourly pay, PhD)

Tools

JAX, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Python, Apache Beam, Spark, Dataflow

AI focus

Data-centric perception ML: investigate training-data choices, build datasets, train and evaluate models, and analyze failure patterns for autonomous driving.

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First seen Oct 13, 2026 · Last verified Nov 4, 2026 (UTC)