2026 Summer Intern, PhD, Perception, Computer Vision/Deep Learning jobs in United States
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Waymo · 4 months ago

2026 Summer Intern, PhD, Perception, Computer Vision/Deep Learning

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company focused on improving mobility and safety through its self-driving technology. They are seeking a PhD intern to design and implement advanced perception models and evaluate machine learning models using extensive driving data.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)AutomotiveAutonomous VehiclesSensorTransportation
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Responsibilities

Design and implement state-of-the-art multi-modality (camera/radar/lidar) and multi-task perception models
Train and evaluate ML models on our vast and high fidelity data from Waymo driving logs
Gain experience using large scale ML infrastructure and working in a team environment

Qualification

Machine LearningComputer VisionPythonJAXPyTorchTensorFlow3D Object DetectionResearch PublicationsTeam Collaboration

Required

Enrolled in a PhD program in Computer Science, Robotics, or a similar technical field of study or enrolled in a master's program with a strong publication record
Experience in Python
Experience building ML models with JAX, PyTorch or Tensorflow

Preferred

Strong track record of high quality ML / CV research. Publications at top-tier conferences like CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ICLR, ICML, ICRA, IROS, RSS, NeurIPS, AAAI, IJCV, PAMI
Experience in object detection, segmentation, multiple-object tracking or occupancy detection

Benefits

Company’s generous benefits programs

Company

Waymo is a mobility technology company that improves transportation by developing self-driving solutions for travelers and daily commuters. It is a sub-organization of Alphabet.

H1B Sponsorship

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Funding

Current Stage
Late Stage
Total Funding
$11.1B
Key Investors
Alphabet
2024-07-23Series C· $5.6B
2021-06-16Series B· $2.5B
2020-05-12Series A· $750M

Leadership Team

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Tekedra Mawakana
Co-Chief Executive Officer
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Elisa de Martel
Chief Financial Officer
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