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Waymo · 4 weeks ago

2026 Summer Intern, PhD, ML Training Infra and Efficiency

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

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. The internship focuses on improving machine learning systems by identifying performance bottlenecks and enhancing the developer experience.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)AutomotiveAutonomous VehiclesSensorTransportation
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Responsibilities

Identify model performance bottlenecks and optimization opportunities
Improve the developer experience and performance of our scalable ML framework
Apply model optimization, efficient deep learning techniques and ML software improvements to Waymo's ML systems

Qualification

PythonC++Machine Learning frameworksReinforcement learningML accelerator profiling toolsML compiler optimizationML compiler infrastructure

Required

Python or C++ experience
Scale model training to multiple accelerators
Reinforcement learning
Machine Learning frameworks (e.g., TensorFlow, JAX, or PyTorch) and distributed training algorithms
Practical familiarity using ML accelerator profiling tools to uncover performance bottlenecks

Preferred

ML compiler optimization such as TVM or XLA
Understand ML compiler infrastructure, such as of HLO and MLIR

Benefits

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

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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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