- Robot type
- Autonomous Vehicle
- Location
- Mountain ViewCaliforniaUSA
- Job type
- Artificial Intelligence
- Posted
- Oct 22, 2026
2027 Summer Intern, PhD, AI Foundations - Recipes
Job description
The mission of the Waymo AI Foundations team is to develop machine learning solutions addressing open problems in autonomous driving, towards the goal of safely operating Waymo vehicles in dozens of cities and under all driving conditions. As part of our work, we also initiate and foster collaborations with other research teams in Alphabet. AI Foundations areas that we are currently focusing on include reinforcement learning, learning from demonstration, generative modeling, Bayesian inference, hierarchical learning, and robust evaluation.
Waymo interns partner with leaders in the industry on projects that create impact to the company.
Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with…
Job responsibilities
- Design and conduct experiments on large-scale generative or foundation model training recipes
- Analyze model evaluation metrics to identify performance bottlenecks and optimization strategies
- Collaborate with researchers and engineers to integrate novel techniques into production training pipelines
Job requirements
- Currently enrolled in a PhD program in Computer Science, AI, Robotics, or a related quantitative field
- Solid background in deep learning, transformer architectures, and generative modeling
- Proficiency in Python and deep learning frameworks (PyTorch, JAX, or TensorFlow)
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