2027 Summer Intern MS PhD Machine Learning Driver Refinement Foundations
Waymo is an Alphabet company operating a public, fully autonomous ride-hailing service and developing the AI-powered Waymo Driver autonomous-driving system.
Maintainer signals as of 9/25/2026
Funding history
About Waymo
Waymo develops and deploys the Waymo Driver, an autonomous-driving technology using AI and a sensor suite, and operates its ride-hailing service for public riders.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will mine and curate samples from large driving-data corpora. You will use large language models and world foundation models for reasoning, decision-making, and multimodal generation. You will optimize multimodal generative models using RLFT, explore reward modeling, and design and improve evaluation metrics.
Requirements
- Currently enrolled in a Master's or PhD program in Computer Science or a related technical field
- Strong problem-solving and programming skills in Python or C++
- Understanding of JAX or PyTorch
- Experience with model evaluation and metric development
- Experience developing models
Responsibilities
- Mine and curate dataset samples from large driving-data corpora
- Use large language models and world foundation models for reasoning, decision-making, and multimodal generation
- Optimize multimodal generative models using RLFT
- Explore reward modeling
- Design and implement evaluation metrics
- Iterate on evaluation improvements
Benefits
- Housing or relocation bonus where applicable
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Intern events and networking opportunities
- Free breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks
- Free access to Google shuttles
- Onsite gym
- Mental wellness support
- Gym membership
- Wellness programs
- Bonus opportunities
- Equity
- Employee provident fund
- Employee discounts
- Flexibility to work from another location for four weeks per year
- Paid time off
- Bereavement leave
- Sick leave
- Parental leave
- 26 weeks of paid leave for birthing parents
- 18 weeks of paid leave for non-birthing parents
- Employee Resource Groups
- Volunteer time off
- Access to Google offices, cafes, wellness centers, and massages
- At-home fitness and cooking classes