MS/PhD, Deep Learning & Modeling Research, Waymo
2025 Summer Intern
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
- Pursuing a Masters or PhD program in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Robotics, or a similar technical field of study
- Experience in deep learning research and tools such as TensorFlow or Pytorch
- Software design and development experience in Python and C++
Desirable
- Publications in top ML conferences such as NeurIPS/ICML/CVPR
- Experience in applying ML to behavior modeling (e.g. Imitation Learning, Behavior Prediction, Reinforcement Learning)
- Knowledge of a wide variety of deep learning models and designs
- Previous ML/SWE internships on large-scale deep learning models and systems
What the job involves
- Waymo interns work with leaders in the industry on projects that deliver significant impact to the company
- We believe learning is a two-way street: applying your knowledge while providing you with opportunities to expand your skillset
- Interns are an important part of our culture and our recruiting pipeline
- Build reliable and generalizable deep learning models for the self-driving vehicles, ensuring that the behavior of our vehicles is safe, smooth, predictable to other road users
- Build robust solutions to cutting-edge driving problems
- Improve how our vehicles act and react in complex and nuanced situations
- Grow a fundamental understanding of the next driving challenges by analyzing real-world logs collected on our state-of-the-art fleet
Application process
- 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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