2027 Summer Intern, MS/PhD, Perception, Machine Learning
Waymo · Mountain View, CA, USA
About this role
**Waymo — 2027 Summer Intern (MS/PhD), Perception, Machine Learning** Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world’s most trusted driver. The Perception team builds the system that learns the spatial-temporal representation and semantic meaning of the surrounding environment for a self-driving car. **Location**: On-site at headquarters in Mountain View, CA. --- ## What you will do - Design and implement state-of-the-art **multi-modality** (camera/radar/lidar/audio) and **multi-task** perception models. - Potential project areas include: - 3D object detection and tracking - Open vocabulary detection (world knowledge models) - 3D occupancy detection - Semantic segmentation - Large-scale foundation models - Pre-training and self-supervised learning through forecasting - Train and evaluate ML models on Waymo’s vast, high-fidelity data from driving logs. - Gain experience using large-scale ML infrastructure and working in a team environment. ## What you have - Enrolled in a **PhD** program in Computer Science, Robotics, or a similar technical field **or** enrolled in a **Master’s** program with a strong publication record. - Experience in **Python**. - Experience building ML models with **JAX, PyTorch, or TensorFlow**. ## We prefer - Strong track record of high-quality ML/CV research (publications at top-tier venues such as CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ICLR, ICML, ICRA, IROS, RSS, NeurIPS, AAAI, IJCV, PAMI). - Experience in object detection, segmentation, multiple-object tracking, audio perception, or occupancy detection. --- ## Notes - This is a **hybrid onsite** internship position. - Resumes are accepted on a **rolling basis** until the role is filled. - If applying to multiple roles, apply to each one individually (apply to the top 3 roles you’re interested in). ## Pay (expected hourly rate) - **Hourly Masters Pay**: **$70–$70 USD/hr** - **Hourly PhD Pay**: **$85–$85 USD/hr**
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