Waymo
2027 Summer Intern, PhD, Machine Learning, Planning/Prediction
Mountain View, CA, USA +1 · Internship · Posted Oct 8, 2026
- Location
- Mountain View, CA, USA
Mountain View, California, United States - Education
- Currently pursuing a PhD degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Robotics, or related field.
About the job
Researches and evaluates machine-learning models that predict driving scenes and plan autonomous vehicle behavior.
What you'll do
- Research, implement, and evaluate models for planning and prediction.
- Analyze results in open-loop and closed-loop settings; conduct machine-learning experiments.
- Collaborate across teams and present conclusions and insights.
What they ask for
- Currently pursuing a PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Robotics, or a related field.
- Experience with Transformers architecture and reinforcement learning.
- Hands-on experience with modern deep-learning libraries and basic programming skills, such as Python.
- Strong analytical and debugging skills.
Nice to have
- Publications at top-tier machine-learning or robotics conferences.
- Prior software-development or industry research experience; background in AV behavior research.
Pay
$85 USD per hour (hourly pay)
Tools
JAX, Python, TensorFlow, Pytorch, Transformers
AI focus
Develops and evaluates deep-learning models for predicting the future state of the world and planning autonomous-vehicle behavior.
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