2027 Summer Intern, PhD, Machine Learning, Simulation RealismActive£80K

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

  • Develop controllable & realistic adversarial agents for more efficient: simulation based evaluation and deploy them in the Waymo Simulator

  • Iterate on the post-training recipes for the state-of-the-art Foundation Models and Waymo World Models

  • Currently pursuing a PhD degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Robotics, or a related technical field

  • Proficient in Python Coding and Tensor Manipulation (using Pytorch / NumPy / JAX / TensorFlow / etc.)

  • Experience with Machine Learning and Deep Learning

  • Hands-on experience with models post-training and reinforcement learning

What they're looking for

  • Hands-on experience with post-training and reinforcement learning
  • Hands-on experience with attention mechanisms, diffusion and / or autoregressive architectures
  • Experience with autonomous driving or robotics