Detection and Tracking Summer Intern, Waymo

PhD, Perception, 2025

Salary not provided

Hourly PhD Pay: $60.10—$60.10 USD; Interns are also eligible to participate in the Company’s generous benefits programs, subject to eligibility requirements

Python

Tensorflow

C++

San Francisco Bay Area

Office located in Mountain View, CA

Autonomous driving technology

Open for applications

Autonomous driving technology

1001+ employees

B2CTransportAutomation

Open for applications

Salary not provided

Hourly PhD Pay: $60.10—$60.10 USD; Interns are also eligible to participate in the Company’s generous benefits programs, subject to eligibility requirements

Python

Tensorflow

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

If you're a software engineer or researcher who's curious and passionate about Level 4 autonomous driving, we'd like to meet you
Currently enrolled in a PhD program in Computer Science, Robotics, or a similar technical field of study
Experience solving computer vision problems using Machine Learning with Tensorflow, JAX or equivalent tools
Ability to collaborate within and across teams
Strong experience programming in Python with robust and efficient code

Desirable

Strong track record of high quality ML research, for example demonstrated by conference publications in venues such as CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ICML, NeurIPS, ICLR, etc
Experience with object detection, instance segmentation, or multiple-object tracking
Experience programming with C++

What the job involves

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
Waymo interns work with leaders in the industry on projects that deliver significant impact to the company
We believe learning is a two-way street: applying your knowledge while providing you with opportunities to expand your skillset
Design state-of-the-art, multi-modality and multi-task Perception models
Code in Python / C++
Train and evaluate the model on large scale datasets

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.

Steph

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

Led by a woman

Top investors

Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

-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 values

Our customers are at the heart of everything we do
Safety is our foundation
We pioneer
Act with thoughtful urgency
Respect each other
Be responsible owners
We’re stronger together
Optionality creates opportunities
Always be learning
Celebrate progress

Company HQ

Mountain View, CA

Articles

Waymo’s new leadership & the future of self-driving cars

Waymo raises further $2.5bn for self-driving car project

Waymo is expanding its driverless program in Phoenix

A Quick Guide To Waymo Self-Driving Cars In Downtown Phoenix

Self-Driving Waymo Robotaxi in Collision with Bicyclist in San Francisco, Raising Safety Concerns

Waymo issues a voluntary recall on its self-driving vehicle software

Waymo AVs Recalled After Hitting Same Truck Two Separate Times Within Minutes

California's Self-Driving Robotaxi Dream May Be In Jeopardy

Google's Waymo Recalled Over 400 Self-Driving Cars After December's Collisions In Phoenix To Deploy OTA Fix, NHTSA Reveals

Waymo’s application to expand California robotaxi operations paused by regulators

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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