2027 Summer Intern, MS/PhD, Perception, Model LifecycleActive$177K

The opportunity

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waymo Driver—The World's Most Experienced Driver™—to improve access to…

What you'll do

  • Own an end-to-end ML project: form a hypothesis, build the dataset, train and evaluate models, and analyze the results.

  • Design and run experiments that measure how training data choices (curation,: mining, balancing, labeling) affect Perception model quality.

  • Build and refine datasets from large-scale multi-sensor driving data (camera, lidar, radar).

  • Train and evaluate Perception models with Waymo's existing training and evaluation tooling.

  • Develop metrics and analyses that explain where models fail and which data would fix those failures.

  • Share findings with ML engineers and research scientists, and help land the: results in production model training.

What they're looking 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 the data side of ML, such as building datasets, data: curation, labeling, or data quality analysis.
  • Strong programming skills in Python.