2027 Summer Intern, PhD, Vehicle Intent and PredictionNew$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

  • Train & evaluate Loss of Control model to evaluate quality impact of your changes.

  • Leverage existing learned models to derive signal on data quality.

  • Design & implement measures of effectiveness of said signals.

  • Develop or augment data pipelines to annotate synthetic training data with said signals.

  • Currently enrolled in a PhD program.

  • ML coding in Python (e.g JAX or Pytorch).

What they're looking for

  • Strong knowledge of foundational statistics & math.
  • Familiarity with neural networks.
  • Familiarity with C++, especially in the context of data processing pipelines.
  • Prior experience with robotics or prediction problems.