2027 Summer Intern, PhD, Machine Learning, Computer Vision (AI)

Location: Mountain View, California, United States; hybrid onsite internship

Salary: $85 per hour

Company

Waymo develops autonomous driving technology and the Waymo Driver for fully autonomous ride-hail services and other vehicle platforms.

What you will do

• Analyze and characterize internal feature representations of deep multimodal perception foundation models.
• Validate model performance on large-scale autonomous vehicle sensor datasets and simulation environments.
• Train, fine-tune, and evaluate deep neural networks to improve model performance.
• Inspect perception foundation models to derive signals about data quality.
• Implement or augment data pipelines to improve data quality.

Requirements

• Currently enrolled in a PhD program in computer science, robotics, electrical engineering, or a related quantitative field.
• Programming experience in Python.
• Practical experience training, fine-tuning, and evaluating deep learning models for computer vision or multimodal perception using PyTorch, JAX, or TensorFlow.
• Strong understanding of modern neural architectures, including Vision Transformers and multimodal sensor encoders.
• Ability to work in a hybrid onsite position in Mountain View, California.

Nice to have

• Research experience or publications in multimodal deep learning or vision foundation models.
• Hands-on experience with multi-camera or 3D LiDAR perception systems in robotics or autonomous driving.
• Experience evaluating large-scale perception systems in practical settings.

Culture & Benefits

• Work with industry leaders on projects that create impact for autonomous driving technology.
• Opportunities to apply existing knowledge and expand technical skills.
• Interns may participate in company benefits programs, subject to eligibility requirements.
• Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis until the role is filled.