Waymo

2027 Summer Intern, MS/PhD, Machine Learning Engineer

Waymo • $145K — $177K *
Consumer Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Currently pursuing PhD or MS in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related field.
  • Experience with training and evaluating deep learning models using modern frameworks (JAX, PyTorch, TensorFlow).
  • Strong programming skills in C++/Python with a firm understanding of ML fundamentals.
  • Knowledge of precision/recall trade-offs, class imbalance, and evaluation metric selection.

Responsibilities

  • Train and fine-tune a large multi-task transformer using JAX/Flax on TPUs.
  • Design and execute comprehensive offline and end-to-end evaluations for A/B testing.
  • Develop datasets and evaluation pipelines essential for performance assessments.
  • Collaborate across teams, documenting results in design docs and team presentations.
  • Deliver production-quality code within a shared, high-traffic codebase.

Benefits

  • Engage in tackling complex challenges that have a significant impact.
  • Enjoy competitive compensation including potential housing/relocation support.
  • Access medical, dental, and vision insurance benefits.
  • Participate in enjoyable intern events and networking opportunities.
  • Benefit from free meals and snacks during onsite work.
  • Access to Google transportation services and an onsite gym.
Full Job Description
You will:
  • Train and fine-tune a large multi-task transformer over driving-log sequences, in JAX/Flax on TPUs - iterating on fine-tuning strategies, training data mixtures, and losses to improve evaluation quality for the hillclimbing workflow
  • Design and run rigorous offline and end-to-end evaluations - PR-AUC, calibration quality, and metric sensitivity on real hillclimbing A/B runs - and build the dataset and evaluation pipelines needed to produce them
  • Land production-quality code in a shared, high-traffic codebase, and communicate results through a design doc, team deep dives, and a final intern presentation, partnering with UEM Core, Data Science, and release-eval stakeholders


You have:
  • Currently enrolled in an PhD or MS program in Computer Science, Machine Learning or a related field, returning to the program after the internship
  • Hands-on experience training and evaluating deep learning models in a modern framework (JAX, PyTorch or TensorFlow), including building data pipelines, choosing losses, and debugging training runs
  • Strong programming skills in C++/Python, plus a solid grounding in ML fundamentals: precision/recall trade-offs, class imbalance, evaluation metric selection, and rigorous experiment design


We prefer:
  • Authorship of published papers in top-tier AI/ML, data mining, or computer vision conferences (e.g., NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, KDD, CVPR, CoRL, SIGMOD, VLDB, ACL)
  • Research or applied experience with transformer and sequence models, multi-task learning, transfer learning or domain adaptation, and parameter-efficient fine-tuning of large pretrained models
  • Experience with JAX/Flax, distributed training on TPUs or GPUs, and large-scale data processing (MapReduce-style pipelines, SQL) for building training and evaluation datasets
  • Familiarity with autonomous driving, robotics, or simulation; and/or with probability calibration, uncertainty quantification, importance sampling, active learning, or rare-event and imbalanced-data modeling
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

About Waymo

Waymo LLC is a self-driving technology development company. It is a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc., the parent company of Google. Waymo develops autonomous driving technology and provides ride-hailing services through its Waymo One program. The company has been testing its self-driving technology on public roads since 2009 and has logged millions of miles of autonomous driving. Waymo has partnerships with several automakers and has been working on developing autonomous trucks for use in logistics.
Learn more about Waymo
Size
2,000 employees
Industry
Founded
2009

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