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2027 Summer Intern, MS/PhD, ML Systems & Behavior Discovery

waymo

Responsibilities

  • Develop and scale ML pipelines to process telemetry data to discover rare driving interactions
  • Benchmark and validate candidate findings to separate meaningful patterns from noise
  • Integrate pipelines to turn discovered patterns into concrete, testable artifacts to verify system improvements

Requirements

  • Currently pursuing graduate degree (Master's or PhD) in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related technical field
  • Strong software engineering skills in Python and/or C++, with experience writing clean, maintainable, and well-tested code
  • Demonstrated experience building and operating data or ML pipelines on large-scale datasets (beyond single-machine or notebook prototypes)
  • Solid foundational understanding of applied machine learning, statistics, and evaluation methodology (e.g., clustering, anomaly detection, ranking, or metric design)

Preferred

  • Experience working with distributed compute systems, data processing frameworks, or large-scale data lakes (e.g., Apache Spark, Beam/Dataflow, Ray, or internal equivalents)
  • Experience with unsupervised learning, outlier/anomaly detection, multimodal embeddings, or LLM/VLM-based evaluation and data filtering
  • Prior research or project experience in autonomous driving, robotics, or spatial-temporal data analysis

We prefer

Track record of taking ambiguous, open-ended problem statements and turning them into practical, working software systems

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.

The expected hourly rate for this full-time position is listed below. Interns are also eligible to participate in the Company’s generous benefits programs, subject to eligibility requirements.

Hourly Masters Pay

  • $70
  • $70 USD
  • The expected hourly rate for this full-time position is listed below. Interns are also eligible to participate in the Company’s generous benefits programs, subject to eligibility requirements.

Hourly PhD Pay

  • $85
  • $85 USD