Waymo
2027 Summer Intern, MS/PhD, Software Engineer, Sys Intel & Machine Learning
Mountain View, CA, USA +1 · Internship · Posted Sep 25, 2026
- Location
- Mountain View, CA, USA
Mountain View, California, United States - Education
- Currently pursuing a Master's or PhD in a listed or related technical field.
About the job
Develop and evaluate machine-learning model optimization methods for Waymo’s autonomous-driving perception models and onboard deployment.
What you'll do
- Build and benchmark LoRA/QLoRA fine-tuning modules in JAX/Flax for multi-task Vision Transformers.
- Develop distillation pipelines and test quantization and model optimizations for onboard hardware.
- Run ablations and evaluate perception metrics on large-scale autonomous-driving datasets.
What they ask for
- Currently pursuing a Master's or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Machine Learning, Robotics, or a related technical field.
- Strong software engineering and deep-learning development skills in Python and a modern framework (JAX, Flax, PyTorch, or TensorFlow).
- Theoretical understanding and hands-on experience with foundation models, Transformer architectures, and multi-task learning.
- Experience with model compression, parameter-efficient fine-tuning, quantization, or knowledge distillation.
Nice to have
- Publications at top-tier computer vision or machine-learning conferences.
- Experience with quantization or hardware-aware optimization, distributed model training, or autonomous-driving perception tasks.
Pay
$70 — $70 USD (base hourly pay, Master's); $85 — $85 USD (base hourly pay, PhD)
Tools
Python, JAX, Flax, PyTorch, TensorFlow, LoRA, QLoRA, TPUs / GPUs
AI focus
Optimize and deploy perception and foundation models for autonomous driving, including fine-tuning, distillation, quantization, and evaluation.
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