MS/PhD Software Engineering Intern, Waymo

Behavior Test, Summer 2026

Salary not provided

Hourly Masters Pay: $50.49—$50.49 USD, Hourly PhD Pay: $60.10—$60.10 USD

SQL

Python

C++

San Francisco Bay Area

Office located in Mountain View, CA

Autonomous driving technology

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Autonomous driving technology

1001+ employees

B2CTransportAutomation

Be an early applicant

Salary not provided

Hourly Masters Pay: $50.49—$50.49 USD, Hourly PhD Pay: $60.10—$60.10 USD

SQL

Python

C++

San Francisco Bay Area

Office located in Mountain View, CA

1001+ employees

B2CTransportAutomation

Company mission

To make it simpler and safer for people to move things and themselves around.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

We're looking for talented teammates who’ll help us maintain strong teamwork and are passionate about driving results
Currently enrolled in a MS/PhD program in computer science, statistics, applied mathematics, physics, or a related technical field of study
Strong background working with data
Solid understanding of physics, geometry, and dynamics
Proficiency in C++, Python and SQL
Enthusiasm to understand a complex system and its various components

Desirable

Experience building and testing autonomous systems
Experience building ML systems
Experience using VLM's

What the job involves

Waymo's Systems Engineering team works together to blend software and hardware systems in groundbreaking new ways. We set the high performance standards that ensure our vehicles run smoothly and keep passengers safe, then design and perform the tests that validate that performance
Developing metrics and models to evaluate and enhance the performance, safety and scalability of our self driving system
Evaluating new models or methods to assess their performance and applicability to problems
Finding new ways to gather the required data needed to improve our metrics and models
Communicating benefits and limitations of new models and metrics to partner teams
Integrating and deploying metrics and models on fleet-wide data

Our take

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company that began as the Google self-driving car project in 2009. After initial development, it secured permits to deploy autonomous ride-hailing services in cities including Phoenix and San Francisco, but has recently hit a major bump in the road with safety concerns that resulted in a recall of over 400 self-driving cars.

With the autonomous driving industry already besieged by setbacks and public distrust, this development does Waymo no favours. That said, as an industry leader there remains the possibility it will see out the storm, but massive attention will need to be given to rebuilding trust with consumers if this is to be the case.

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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

Led by a woman

Top investors

-1% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (3.7)

Company

Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)

Aug 2024

$5.6bn

SERIES C

Jun 2021

$2.5bn

GROWTH EQUITY VC

Total funding: $11.1bn

Company HQ

Mountain View, CA

Leadership

Dmitri Dolgov

(Co-CEO, not founder)

Former CTO of the company. After a PhD at the University of Michigan, they worked as a Stanford Postdoctoral Researcher before moving to the Toyota Research Institute. They also spent 8 years at Google as a Software Engineer.

Tekedra N. Mawakana

(Co-CEO, not founder)

Has worked at Waymo since 2017, as Global Head of Policy then CXO then COO before becoming Co-CEO. They are on the Board of Advisors at Operator Collective, Board of Directors at Intuit, and an Advisor for Boom Supersonic.

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