Summer Intern, Research Scientist, Waymo
MS/PhD, 4D Scene Reconstruction and Synthesis
$50.48 - $60.10 USD per hour
Office located in Mountain View, CA
Autonomous driving technology
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Autonomous driving technology
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$50.48 - $60.10 USD per hour
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
- Currently pursuing a Master's or PhD degree in computer science or a related technical field
- Hands-on computer vision and machine learning experience (prior internships or coursework)
- Related publications in major conferences (e.g. CVPR, ICCV, ICML, IEEE, etc) or ongoing research projects in this area
- Strong software engineering skills (Python)
Desirable
- Prior experience in neural rendering (meshes, point clouds, Gaussian Splatting, NeRF) and/or generative image/video models
- Ability to rapidly prototype research ideas in deep learning frameworks (e.g. TensorFlow, PyTorch, JAX)
What the job involves
- The mission of the Waymo Research team is to develop machine learning solutions addressing open problems in autonomous driving, towards the goal of safely operating Waymo vehicles in dozens of cities and under all driving conditions
- As part of our work, we also initiate and foster collaborations with other research teams in Alphabet
- Research areas that we are currently focusing on include reinforcement learning, learning from demonstration, generative modeling, Bayesian inference, hierarchical learning, and robust evaluation
- Solve research problems related to scene reconstruction from real-world scenarios, scene synthesis using generative models, or combining reconstructive and generative methods
- Prototype and iterate on various research ideas using Waymo's internal driving data
- Present research findings to a wide audience within Waymo, with the possibility of publishing results to the research community
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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Insights
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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