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2027 Summer Intern, MS/PhD, AI-driven ML Performance Engineering Intern

Waymo· Software Engineering
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Mountain View, CA$70/hrFull-timePosted 2w ago

About the role

Internship position in Waymo’s AI-driven ML performance engineering team, focusing on developing high-performance kernels for a custom ML accelerator, ensuring correctness, analyzing performance, and building a kernel-generation harness. Hybrid onsite internship in Mountain View, CA.

Responsibilities

  • Work with AI agents to create high performance low-level kernels in a Domain-Specific language for a custom ML accelerator
  • Ensure functional correctness and numerical accuracy of kernels
  • Conduct performance analysis of the kernels to identify performance bottlenecks and areas that need improvement
  • Develop a custom harness to recursively improve kernel generation and remove the need for human involvement

Qualifications

  • Currently enrolled in an MS or PhD program in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Computational Science, or a related quantitative field
  • Demonstrated track record of using AI agents and harnesses to improve coding performance
  • Working knowledge of key kernels for transformer inference including performance analysis and optimization
  • Familiarity with one or more low-level ML accelerator DSLs (CUDA, Triton, Gluon, etc.)

Skills

Required:Domain-Specific Language (DSL) for ML acceleratorsKernel development and optimization for transformer inferencePerformance analysis
Nice to have:PythonC++

Benefits

  • Interns are eligible to participate in the Company’s generous benefits programs, subject to eligibility requirements
  • Health and wellness benefits (medical, dental, vision) as part of Waymo benefits
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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