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Waymo

Robot type
Autonomous Vehicle
Location
Mountain ViewCaliforniaUSA
Job type
Artificial Intelligence
Posted
Oct 30, 2026
Internship

2027 Summer Intern, PhD, Research Scientist Intern

Job description

Software Engineering builds the brains of Waymo's fully autonomous driving technology. Our software allows the Waymo Driver to perceive the world around it, make the right decision for every situation, and deliver people safely to their destinations. We think deeply and solve complex technical challenges in areas like robotics, perception, decision-making and deep learning, while collaborating with hardware and systems engineers. If you’re a software engineer or researcher who’s curious and passionate about Level 4 autonomous driving, we'd like to meet you.

Waymo interns partner with leaders in the industry on projects that create impact to the company.

Job responsibilities

  • Leverage SOTA foundation model at Alphabet and research relevant literature to build a foundation critic model
  • Tackle problems such as avoiding shortcut learning, instill appropriate “thinking” mode into the model, prototype an auto-researcher / RSI loop, etc
  • Prototype research solutions to current system bottlenecks (shortcut learning, sensitivity w.r.t inputs, etc.)
  • Ideally own an medium-to-large scale E2E research project to develop the next-gen critic model at Waymo

Job requirements

  • Currently enrolled in a PhD program in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, or a related quantitative field
  • Foundational ML knowledge (pre-LLM era)
  • Expert knowledge on LLM, VLM, VLA
  • Strong software development experience in Python and debugging capability
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