MS/PhD Machine Learning Driver Refinement Foundations (2027 Summer Internship)

Job summary
Internship
San Francisco
Salary: Not specified
Skills & expertise
Coaching and mentoring
C++
Foundation
Pytorch
SQL
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Job description

  • 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
  • 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:
  • 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

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and dependents
  • Employee assistance programs focused on mental health
  • Personalized workplace adjustments for diverse needs and abilities, including physical, mental, and neurodivergent considerations
  • Access to mental health apps
  • Onsite wellness centers
  • Medical advocacy program for transgender employees
  • Counseling services
  • Support programs including menopause benefit
  • Second medical opinion for you and your loved ones
  • Competitive compensation
  • Regular bonus and equity performance grant opportunities
  • Generous 401(k) and regional retirement plans
  • 1-on-1 financial coaching
  • Annual cross-company compensation review and pay equity analysis
  • Fertility and growing family assistance
  • Parental leave and baby bonding leave
  • Elder care and support
  • Survivor income benefit
  • Backup childcare
  • Caregiver leave
  • Paid time off, including vacation, bereavement, sick leave, parental leave, disability, and holidays
  • Jury duty leave
  • Military leave
  • Hybrid work model with remote work opportunities also available
  • Educational reimbursement
  • Peer learning and coaching platform
  • Donation matching programs
  • Employee resource groups
  • Volunteer hours
  • Internal community groups and local culture clubs
  • Inspiring spaces to work, recharge, and collaborate with fellow Waymonauts
  • On-site meals and snacks
  • Fitness centers, massage programs, and ergonomic support
  • On-demand fitness, wellbeing, and cooking classes
  • Commuter benefits

Preferred experience

  • Experience in strong software engineering principles
  • Good understanding of Jax/Pytorch
  • 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++
  • Experience in model evaluation and understanding metrics
  • Some understanding of SQL is preferred, not required
  • PhD preferred
  • Previous Internship experience

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