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# 2027 Summer Intern, MS/PhD, Perception, Machine Learning

- **Company:** Waymo LLC
- **Location:** Mountain View, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Internship
- **Salary:** $145,600.0 - $176,800.0
- **Contract:** Internship / Graduate position
- **Skills:** Python (Programming Language), Machine Learning, Object Detection, Tensorflow, Pytorch, Information Technology, Machine Learning Operations
- **Published:** September 26, 2026
- **Apply:** https://diversityjobs.com/main/sendform/8/8/28176/1/18450486?backUrl=%2Fcareer%2F18450486%2F2027-Summer-Intern-Ms-Phd-Perception-Machine-Learning-California-Mountain-View

## About the Role

* Enrolled in a PhD program in Computer Science, Robotics, or a similar technical field of study or enrolled in a master's program with a strong publication record.
 * Experience in Python
 * Experience building ML models with JAX, PyTorch or Tensorflow

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, AAAI, IJCV, PAMI.
 * Experience in object detection, segmentation, multiple-object tracking audio perception or occupancy detection.

## Description

* Design and implement state-of-the-art multi-modality (camera/radar/lidar/audio) and multi-task perception models. Potential project areas include:
 + 3D object detection and tracking,
 + Open vocabulary detection applying world knowledge models,
 + 3D occupancy detection,
 + Semantic segmentation,
 + Large-scale foundation models,
 + Pre-training and self-supervised learning through forecasting.
 * Train and evaluate ML models on our vast and high fidelity data from Waymo driving logs.
 * Gain experience using large scale ML infrastructure and working in a team environment.


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