Waymo

2027 Summer Intern, PhD, Machine Learning, Computer Vision

Waymo$176K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

  • Analyze and characterize internal feature representations of deep multimodal perception foundation models.
  • Design and implement active learning and intelligent data curation algorithms for identifying rare edge cases.
  • Explore automated data labeling and validation using Vision-Language Models (VLMs).
  • Train, fine-tune, and evaluate deep neural networks to enhance model performance.
  • Validate model performance on large-scale datasets from autonomous vehicle sensors and simulations.

Benefits

  • Participate in the company's generous benefits programs, subject to eligibility requirements.
Full Job Description
You will:
  • Analyze and characterize internal feature representations of deep multimodal perception foundation models.
  • Design and implement active learning and intelligent data curation algorithms to identify rare, safety-critical edge cases.
  • Explore automated data labeling and validation workflows leveraging modern Vision-Language Models (VLMs).
  • Train, fine-tune, and evaluate deep neural networks to improve model performance.
  • Validate model performance on large-scale autonomous vehicle sensor datasets and simulation environments.

You have:
  • Currently enrolled in a PhD program in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, or a related quantitative field.
  • Experience programming in Python and C++.
  • Practical experience training, fine-tuning, and evaluating deep learning models for computer vision or multimodal perception (e.g., using PyTorch, JAX, or TensorFlow).
  • Solid understanding of modern neural architectures (e.g., Vision Transformers, multi modal sensor encoders).

We prefer:
  • Research experience or publications in active learning, self-supervised representation learning, core-set selection, or multi modal foundation models (VLMs).
  • Hands-on experience working with multi-camera or 3D LiDAR perception systems in robotics or autonomous driving.
  • Experience building VLM evaluation/judge pipelines or large-scale data mining workflows.
  • Familiarity with high-dimensional feature analysis and clustering techniques.


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 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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