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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