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Waymo
ML Engineer

2027 Summer Intern, MS/PhD, Sim-Realism ML Infrastructure

On-siteJuniorML Engineerposted 3w ago
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The internship focuses on building and scaling machine‑learning infrastructure for high‑fidelity simulation at Waymo. Candidates will develop data pipelines, distributed training frameworks, and cloud‑based tools to improve simulation realism for autonomous driving research.

Skills required

About this role

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waymo Driver—The World's Most Experienced Driver™—to improve access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes. The Waymo Driver powers Waymo’s fully autonomous ride-hail service and can also be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases. The Waymo Driver has provided over ten million rider-only trips, enabled by its experience autonomously driving over 100 million miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 15+ U.S. states.

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waymo Driver—The World's Most Experienced Driver™—to improve access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes. The Waymo Driver powers Waymo’s fully autonomous ride-hail service and can also be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases. The Waymo Driver has provided over ten million rider-only trips, enabled by its experience autonomously driving over 100 million miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 15+ U.S. states.

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. We believe learning is a two-way street: applying your knowledge while providing you with opportunities to expand your skill-set. Interns are an important part of our culture and our recruiting pipeline. Join us at Waymo for a fun and rewarding internship!

You will:

  • Currently enrolled in a Master's or PhD program in Computer Science, or a related technical field.
  • Contribute to existing projects maintaining millions of multi-modal examples and PiBs of feature data. .
  • Implement new systems to improve existing workflows.
  • Work with users and agents to identify use cases and flows that can be improved.

You have:

  • Python / C++ Coding.
  • Distributed Systems.
  • Familiarity with ML training and inference lifecycles.

We prefer:

  • Hands on experience with feature extraction, feature representations, distributed storage.
  • Experience with deep learning frameworks, TensorFlow, Jax.
  • Experience with autonomous driving and / or robotics.

Note: This will be a hybrid onsite internship position. We will accept resumes on a rolling basis until the role is filled. To be in consideration for multiple roles, you will need to apply to each one individually - please apply to the top 3 roles you are interested in.

The expected annual pay for this full-time position is listed below. Interns are also eligible to participate in the Company’s generous benefits programs, subject to eligibility requirements.

Masters Pay

£65,000—£65,000 GBP

The expected annual pay for this full-time position is listed below. Interns are also eligible to participate in the Company’s generous benefits programs, subject to eligibility requirements.

PhD Pay

£80,000—£80,000 GBP

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