Machine Learning / Computer Vision Intern, Waymo
Perception - 2025 Summer
Masters / PhD salary: $50.48—$60.10 USD per hour depending on education level
1-5 days a week in office (Mountain View, CA)
Autonomous driving technology
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Autonomous driving technology
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
Masters / PhD salary: $50.48—$60.10 USD per hour depending on education level
1-5 days a week in office (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
- Pursuing a Masters or PhD program in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Machine Learning, or related technical fields
- Experience with Deep Learning, VLM/LLMs, and/or Computer Vision
- Experience with Python and deep learning frameworks such as JAX, Tensorflow, Pytorch
Desirable
- Strong track record of high quality ML / CV research. Publications at top-tier conferences like CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ICLR, ICML, ICRA, IROS, RSS, NeurIPS
- Experience with training large VLM/LLMs with distributed training
- Experience in task domains such as object detection, segmentation, multiple-object tracking, occupancy detection, semantics understanding, or trajectory prediction
What the job involves
- Design and develop Deep Learning Models as well as Vision Language Models (VLMs/LLMs) for autonomous driving. Potential projects include:
- Leveraging VLM/LLM's world knowledge and reasoning capabilities for driving related applications
- Design and implementation of multi-modality (camera/radar/lidar) and multi-task perception models focusing on 3D object (open vocabulary) detection and tracking, segmentation, semantics understanding, video understanding, audio localization, scene understanding, traffic control, or trajectory prediction, etc
- Pre-training and self-supervised learning techniques; few-shot learning techniques
- Gain experience on large scale machine learning systems and on different phases of model development: data mining, labeling, training and evaluation, with vast and high fidelity data from Waymo driving logs
Application process
- This will be a hybrid onsite internship position. We will accept resumes on a rolling basis until the role is filled
- To be in consideration for multiple roles, you will need to apply to each one individually - please apply to the top 3 roles you are interested in
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
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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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