Software Engineer Internship, Waymo
MS/PhD, 2025 Summer
Hourly Masters Pay: $50.48—$50.48 USD. Hourly PhD Pay: $60.10—$60.10 USD
Office located in Mountain View, CA
Autonomous driving technology
Be an early applicant
Autonomous driving technology
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
Hourly Masters Pay: $50.48—$50.48 USD. Hourly PhD Pay: $60.10—$60.10 USD
Office located in Mountain View, CA
1001+ employees
Company mission
To make it simpler and safer for people to move things and themselves around.
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
- Programming proficiency in Python or C++
- Strong foundation in neural network architectures (CNNs, transformers) and performance analysis
- Familiarity with computer architecture concepts and ML performance optimization techniques
Desirable
- Experience in HW/SW co-design
- Experience in performance tools and simulators
- Experience in ML compiler design and implementation
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 alongside leaders in the industry on projects that deliver significant impact to the company
- We believe learning is a two-way street: leveraging your knowledge while providing you with opportunities to expand your skill-set
- Interns are an important part of our culture and our recruiting pipeline
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
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
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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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