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2027 Summer Intern, MS/PhD, Machine Learning, Driver Refinement Foundations
Waymo · San Francisco, CA · Posted 13 days ago
"Help build the data generation and post-training platforms that drive behavior improvements across Waymo's entire Planner organization, using LLMs and world foundation models."
Software Engineering builds the brains of Waymo's fully autonomous driving technology. Our software allows the Waymo Driver to perceive the world around it, make the right decision for every situation, and deliver people safely to their destinations. We think deeply and solve complex technical challenges in areas like robotics, perception, decision-making and deep learning, while collaborating with hardware and systems engineers. If you’re a software engineer or researcher who’s curious and passionate about Level 4 autonomous driving, we'd like to meet you.
The team for this role will be:
Driver Refinement Foundations
The team is accountable for providing the common, consistent framework (and enabling expertise) for post-training and heuristic hill climbing across the entire Planner organization. We build fundamental platforms to assist Waymo engineers in delivering driving behavior improvements using data-driven and heuristic methods.
- Mine and curate dataset samples from large corpus of driving data
- Leverage large language models and world foundation models for reasoning, decision making and multi-modality generation
- Design and implement robust data generation pipelines for data generation
- Design and evaluate experiments for model training
- Designing robust data generation pipelines for model training
- Currently enrolled in a graduate program (Master's or PhD) in Computer Science or a related technical field
- You have strong problem solving and programming skills in Python and/or C++
- Good understanding of Jax/Pytorch
- Experience in model evaluation and understanding metrics
- Experience in strong software engineering principles
- Some understanding of SQL is preferred, not required
- Previous Internship experience
- Help solve challenging problems with a direct impact on the company
- Competitive compensation packages with a housing/relocation bonus (if applicable)
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Fun intern events and networking opportunities
- Free breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks
- Free access to Google shuttles
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