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2027 Summer Intern, MS/PhD, Semantics

Waymo· Software Engineering
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Mountain View, California$70/hrInternPosted 5d ago

About the role

Internship at Waymo focusing on developing state-of-the-art multi-modality perception models for autonomous driving, with opportunities to work on 3D object detection/tracking, open vocabulary detection, 3D occupancy detection, semantic segmentation, and foundation models using large-scale data and ML infrastructure.

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 Masters or 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:PythonJAXPyTorch
Nice to have:TensorFlowResearch publications

Benefits

  • Interns are eligible to participate in the Company’s generous benefits programs, subject to eligibility requirements.
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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Waymo—formerly the Google self-driving car project—makes it safe and easy for people & things to get around with autonomous vehicles.

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