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2027 Summer Intern, MS/PhD, Perception, Machine Learning

Waymo· Software Engineering
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Mountain View, California$70/hrFull-timePosted 3w ago

About the role

Internship in Perception and Machine Learning for Waymo Driver. On-site in Mountain View, CA, focusing on designing, training, and evaluating multi-modality perception models and scalable ML pipelines.

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement state-of-the-art multi-modality (camera/radar/lidar/audio) and multi-task perception models. Potential project areas include: 3D object detection and tracking, Open vocabulary detection applying world knowledge models, 3D occupancy detection, Semantic segmentation, Large-scale foundation models, Pre-training and self-supervised learning through forecasting.
  • Train and evaluate ML models on Waymo driving data.
  • Gain experience using large scale ML infrastructure and working in a team environment.

Qualifications

  • Enrolled in a PhD program in Computer Science, Robotics, or a similar technical field of study or enrolled in a master's program with a strong publication record.
  • Experience in Python
  • Experience building ML models with JAX, PyTorch or Tensorflow

Skills

Required:PythonML model development

Benefits

  • Interns are eligible to participate in the Company’s generous benefits programs, subject to eligibility requirements.
  • Hours: hourly pay vocationally stated for interns (Masters pay and PhD pay)
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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