The team for this role will be:
Driver Refinement Foundations
Description:
The team is accountable for providing the common, consistent framework (and enabling expertise) for post-training and heuristic hill climbing across the entire Planner organization. We build fundamental platforms to assist Waymo engineers in delivering driving behavior improvements using data-driven and heuristic methods.
Waymo interns partner with leaders in the industry on projects that create impact to the company. We believe learning is a two-way street: applying your knowledge while providing you with opportunities to expand your skill-set. Interns are an important part of our culture and our recruiting pipeline. Join us at Waymo for a fun and rewarding internship!
You will:- Mine and curate dataset samples from large corpus of driving data
- Leverage large language models and world foundation models for reasoning, decision making and multi-modality generation
- Design and implement robust data generation pipelines for data generation
- Design and evaluate experiments for model training
- Designing robust data generation pipelines for model training
You have:- Currently enrolled in a graduate program (Master's or PhD) in Computer Science or a related technical field
- You have strong problem solving and programming skills in Python and/or C++
- Good understanding of Jax/Pytorch
- Experience in model evaluation and understanding metrics
- Experience in strong software engineering principles
We prefer:- Some understanding of SQL is preferred, not required
- Previous Internship experience
- PhD preferred
General Perks- Help solve challenging problems with a direct impact on the company
- Competitive compensation packages with a housing/relocation bonus (if applicable)
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Fun intern events and networking opportunities
Onsite Perks- Free breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks
- Free access to Google shuttles
- Onsite gym
Note: This will be a hybrid onsite internship position. We will accept resumes on a rolling basis until the role is filled. To be in consideration for multiple roles, you will need to apply to each one individually - please apply to the top 3 roles you are interested in.
The expected hourly rate for this full-time position is listed below. Interns are also eligible to participate in the Company's generous benefits programs, subject to eligibility requirements.
Hourly Masters Pay
$70-$70 USD
The expected hourly rate for this full-time position is listed below. Interns are also eligible to participate in the Company's generous benefits programs, subject to eligibility requirements.
Hourly PhD Pay
$85-$85 USD
