Research, 3D/4D Scene Reconstruction and Understanding, Waymo

2026 Summer Internship, PhD

Salary not provided

$60.10—$60.10 USD per hour

Python

Tensorflow

C++

PyTorch

San Francisco Bay Area

More information about location

Office located in Mountain View, CA

Autonomous driving technology

Open for applications

Autonomous driving technology

1001+ employees

B2CTransportAutomation

Open for applications

Salary not provided

$60.10—$60.10 USD per hour

Python

Tensorflow

C++

PyTorch

San Francisco Bay Area

More information about location

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

Currently pursuing a 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, ECCV, NeurIPS, ICLR, etc) or ongoing research projects in this area
Strong software engineering skills (Python, C++)
Note: This will be a hybrid onsite internship position

Desirable

Prior experience in feed-forward scene reconstruction methods (e.g., VGGT) and vision-language foundation models
Ability to rapidly prototype research ideas in deep learning frameworks (e.g. TensorFlow, PyTorch, JAX)

What the job involves

Solve research problems related to scene reconstruction and understanding from real-world scenarios, leveraging geometric foundation models and/or vision-language foundation models
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

Application process

We will accept resumes on a rolling basis until the role is filled

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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