Waymo
2027 Summer Intern, PhD, AI Foundations - Recipes
Mountain View, CA, USA +1 · Internship · Posted Oct 22, 2026
- Location
- Mountain View, CA, USA
Mountain View, California, United States - Education
- Currently enrolled in a PhD program in Computer Science, AI, Robotics, or a related quantitative field.
About the job
Conduct research and experiments on generative and foundation-model training recipes for autonomous driving, evaluating model performance and integrating techniques into production training pipelines.
What you'll do
- Design and conduct experiments on large-scale generative or foundation model training recipes.
- Analyze model evaluation metrics to identify performance bottlenecks and optimization strategies.
- Collaborate with researchers and engineers to integrate novel techniques into production training pipelines.
What they ask for
- Currently enrolled in a PhD program in Computer Science, AI, Robotics, or a related quantitative field.
- Solid background in deep learning, transformer architectures, and generative modeling.
- Proficiency in Python and deep learning frameworks (PyTorch, JAX, or TensorFlow).
Nice to have
- Publications at top-tier AI/ML conferences (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR, ECCV, ICCV).
- Experience with distributed training across multi-node GPU/TPU clusters; familiarity with autonomous driving perception, prediction, or planning problems.
Pay
$85 USD per hour (hourly pay)
Tools
Python, PyTorch, JAX, TensorFlow, GPU/TPU
AI focus
Research and develop generative and foundation-model training methods, with work on model evaluation and production training pipelines.
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