About the role#
This is a full-time internship for Summer 2027 based on-site in Mountain View, California. You will work within the Perception team to build machine learning models that help our autonomous driving technology perceive the world. You will gain experience using large-scale ML infrastructure while working alongside engineers and researchers.
What you'll do#
- Design and implement multi-modality and multi-task perception models using camera, radar, lidar, and audio data.
- Work on projects including 3D object detection and tracking, 3D occupancy detection, and semantic segmentation.
- Develop open vocabulary detection using world knowledge models.
- Explore large-scale foundation models and self-supervised learning through forecasting.
- Train and evaluate models using high-fidelity data from Waymo driving logs.
What you'll need#
- Enrollment in a Masters or PhD program in Computer Science, Robotics, or a similar technical field.
- Master's students must have a strong publication record.
- Experience writing code in Python.
- Experience building machine learning models with JAX, PyTorch, or Tensorflow.
- Preferred: A strong track record of high-quality ML or CV research.
- Preferred: Publications at top-tier conferences like CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ICLR, ICML, ICRA, IROS, RSS, NeurIPS, AAAI, IJCV, or PAMI.
- Preferred: Experience in object detection, segmentation, multiple-object tracking, or audio perception.
Location & details#
- Location: Mountain View, California, United States.
- Term: Summer 2027.
- Status: Paid, full-time, on-site.
- Note: Sponsorship is not provided for this role.
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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