2027 Summer Intern, PhD, Machine Learning, Computer Vision

Location: Mountain View, California; hybrid onsite internship

Salary: $85 per hour

Company

Waymo develops autonomous driving technology and fully autonomous ride-hail services through the Waymo Driver.

What you will do

• Analyze internal feature representations of deep multimodal perception foundation models.
• Design active learning and intelligent data curation algorithms for rare, safety-critical edge cases.
• Develop automated data labeling and validation workflows using Vision-Language Models.
• Train, fine-tune, and evaluate deep neural networks for computer vision and multimodal perception.
• Validate model performance on large-scale autonomous vehicle sensor datasets and simulation environments.

Requirements

• Currently enrolled in a PhD program in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, or a related quantitative field.
• Programming experience in Python and C++.
• Practical experience training, fine-tuning, and evaluating deep learning models for computer vision or multimodal perception.
• Experience with PyTorch, JAX, or TensorFlow.
• Understanding of modern neural architectures, including Vision Transformers and multimodal sensor encoders.

Nice to have

• Research or publications in active learning, self-supervised representation learning, core-set selection, or multimodal foundation models.
• Experience with multi-camera or 3D LiDAR perception systems in robotics or autonomous driving.
• Experience building Vision-Language Model evaluation pipelines or large-scale data-mining workflows.
• Familiarity with high-dimensional feature analysis and clustering techniques.

Culture & Benefits

• Projects are developed in partnership with industry leaders and can have direct company impact.
• Interns receive opportunities to apply existing knowledge and expand their skills.
• Eligible interns can participate in the company’s benefits programs.
• Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis until the role is filled.