About the role#
This is a full-time, paid internship for Summer 2027. You will join the AI Foundations team to work on machine learning solutions for autonomous driving. This role is hybrid and based in Mountain View, California.
What you'll do#
- Research and develop visual and spatio-temporal reasoning methods for multimodal Perception Foundation Models using AV sensor data.
- Design and implement post-training recipes, including Supervised Fine-Tuning and Reinforcement Learning, to improve perception generalization in long-tail driving scenarios.
- Run large-scale experiments and ablation studies on autonomous driving benchmarks.
- You will have the opportunity to publish your findings at major AI and computer vision conferences.
What you'll need#
- You are currently pursuing a PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
- Hands-on experience and a strong publication record in perception, LLMs, or VLMs.
- Knowledge of pre-training and post-training for large foundation models.
- Strong Python skills with experience in deep learning frameworks like PyTorch, JAX, or TensorFlow.
- Preferred experience includes visual reasoning for robotics or driving, RL training, and open-vocabulary perception.
Location & details#
- Location: Mountain View, California.
- Modality: Hybrid.
- Term: Summer 2027.
- Compensation: $85 per hour.
About Waymo
Waymo is a technology company that develops automated driving systems. It focuses on mobility and road safety through its Waymo Driver technology. The firm operates as a private organization and employs between 1,001 and 5,000 people. It was founded in 2009 and maintains its headquarters in Mountain View, California.
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