Waymo
2027 Summer Intern, PhD, Research, Post Training
Mountain View, CA, USA: San Francisco, CA, USA +2 · Internship · Posted Oct 9, 2026
- Location
- Mountain View, CA, USA: San Francisco, CA, USA
Mountain View, California, United States
San Francisco, California, United States - Education
- Currently pursuing a PhD in Computer Science, Robotics, Machine Learning, or a related quantitative field.
About the job
Research and improve post-training methods for AI foundation models used in autonomous driving through experiments, model evaluation, and collaboration with the AI Foundations team.
What you'll do
- Set research goals, prepare datasets and training code, evaluate model performance, and plan follow-up experiments.
- Analyze experimental results and form research hypotheses.
- Document work and use team feedback to adjust experiments and research direction.
What they ask for
- Currently pursuing a PhD in Computer Science, Robotics, Machine Learning, or a related quantitative field.
- Knowledge of pre-training and post-training large foundation models.
- Hands-on experience training modern AI models.
- Strong analytical and software implementation skills, including interpreting experiments and writing correct code with limited guidance.
Nice to have
- Research background in robotics or self-driving cars.
- Familiarity with modern AI infrastructure and tooling such as pytorch and jax, cluster/server environments, and publication of several papers in top conferences.
Pay
$85 — $85 USD (hourly pay)
Tools
pytorch, jax
AI focus
Research on machine learning for autonomous driving, with focus on foundation-model post-training and experimentation; the team’s research areas include reinforcement learning, learning from demonstration, generative modeling, Bayesian inference, hierarchical learning, and robust evaluation.
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