Product Data Science Intern, Waymo

PhD, Summer 2026

Salary not provided

$60.10—$60.10 USD p/hr

SQL

Python

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

$60.10—$60.10 USD p/hr

SQL

Python

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

Actively in pursuit of PhD in a quantitative field
Hands-on experience coding experience with Python and SQL
Statistics and Machine Learning knowledge
Ability to structure and solve ambiguous problems
Demonstrated experience communicating and collaborating with different stakeholders

Desirable

Experience in supply optimization modeling and implementation (e.g. solver packages) and/or causal inference methods (e.g. causal forests, DoubleML, propensity matching)
Demonstrated proficiency of Python/SQL/R data analysis libraries and packages

What the job involves

Waymo's Product Data Science team works cross-functionally with Engineering, Product and Operations to help the company make the most informed decisions using data
Our team collaborates on high-impact projects across the company — from driving quality and operational efficiency to market analysis and rider satisfaction scores — we help to safely and efficiently scale the Waymo Driver
We are data-driven, curious, open-minded, and adapt quickly to new information
Partner with Data Science, Engineering, Product and Operations teams to improve supply efficiency and accelerate Waymo’s growth
Build sophisticated ML models and use causal methods to understand and forecast fleet conditions and rider behavior
Have the opportunity to deploy your work into our production systems to enable continuous decision making

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

-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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