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Waymo · 2 months ago

2026 Summer Intern, PhD, Perception

positionMountain View, CA
timeInternship
remoteOnsite
seniorityIntern
money$85/hr - $85/hr
workcardStart in 2026 Summer

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company focused on improving access to mobility while saving lives. The internship involves designing and implementing advanced perception models and training ML models on high fidelity data from Waymo driving logs.

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 LearningPythonJAXPyTorchTensorFlow3D object detectionSemantic segmentationMultiple-object trackingOccupancy detectionResearch publicationTeam 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

Participate in the Company’s generous benefits programs

Company

Waymo

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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.
dateFounded in 2009
location
Mountain View, California, USA
people-size1001-5000 employees
web-link
https://waymo.com

H1B Sponsorship

Waymo has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
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2022 (306)
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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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Annabel Chang
Head of State Policy & Government Relations
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