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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # 2027 Summer Intern, PhD, Machine Learning, Computer Vision - **Company:** Waymo LLC - **Location:** Mountain View, CA, United States - **Experience:** Internship - **Salary:** $176,800.0 - **Contract:** Internship / Graduate position - **Skills:** Systems Engineering, Artificial Neural Networks, Computer Vision, Big Data, C++ (Programming Language), Cluster Analysis, Python (Programming Language), Machine Learning, Language Modeling, Tensorflow, Software Engineering, Pytorch, Deep Learning, Information Technology, Lidar - **Published:** September 12, 2026 - **Apply:** https://diversityjobs.com/main/sendform/8/8/28176/1/18272691?backUrl=%2Fcareer%2F18272691%2F2027-Summer-Intern-Phd-Machine-Learning-Computer-Vision-California-Mountain-View ## About the Role * Currently enrolled in a PhD program in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, or a related quantitative field. * Experience programming in Python and C++. * Practical experience training, fine-tuning, and evaluating deep learning models for computer vision or multimodal perception (e.g., using PyTorch, JAX, or TensorFlow). * Solid understanding of modern neural architectures (e.g., Vision Transformers, multi modal sensor encoders). We prefer: * Research experience or publications in active learning, self-supervised representation learning, core-set selection, or multi modal foundation models (VLMs). * Hands-on experience working with multi-camera or 3D LiDAR perception systems in robotics or autonomous driving. * Experience building VLM evaluation/judge pipelines or large-scale data mining workflows. * Familiarity with high-dimensional feature analysis and clustering techniques. ## Description Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waymo Driver-The World's Most Experienced Driver-to improve access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes. The Waymo Driver powers Waymo's fully autonomous ride-hail service and can also be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases. The Waymo Driver has provided over ten million rider-only trips, enabled by its experience autonomously driving over 100 million miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 15+ U.S. states. Software Engineering buildsthe brains ofWaymo'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. 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: * Analyze and characterize internal feature representations of deep multimodal perception foundation models. * Design and implement active learning and intelligent data curation algorithms to identify rare, safety-critical edge cases. * Explore automated data labeling and validation workflows leveraging modern Vision-Language Models (VLMs). * Train, fine-tune, and evaluate deep neural networks to improve model performance. * Validate model performance on large-scale autonomous vehicle sensor datasets and simulation environments. ## Related Videos - [How to develop an autonomous car end-to-end: Robotic Drive and the mobility revolution](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/22-how-to-develop-an-autonomous-car-end-to-end-robotic-drive-and-the-mobility-revolution) - [Alibaba Big Data and Machine Learning Technology](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/37-alibaba-big-data-and-machine-learning-technology) - [What non-automotive Machine Learning projects can learn from automotive Machine Learning projects](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/397-what-non-automotive-machine-learning-projects-can-learn-from-automotive-machine-learning-projects) - [Photonic Computing: Programming a New Class of AI Accelerators (incl. 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