2025 Summer Intern, MS/PhD, Perception - Machine Learning/Computer Vision

Waymo interns partner with leaders in the industry on projects that create impact to the company. We believe learning is a two-way street: applying your knowledge while providing you with opportunities to expand your skill-set. Interns are an important part of our culture and our recruiting pipeline. Join us at Waymo for a fun and rewarding internship!

You will:

• 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.

You have:

• 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

We prefer:

• 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.

Note: 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.

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