2025 Summer Intern MS/PhD, Perception - VLM/LLM

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Mountain View, CA
50-50 Annually
Internship
Automotive
The Role
As a Summer Intern at Waymo, you will design and develop deep learning models including Vision Language Models and Large Language Models using real-world sensor data. You will explore the application of VLM’s capabilities to enhance driving tasks and collaborate with research teams at Alphabet.
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Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the 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 One, a fully autonomous ride-hailing service, and can also be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases. The Waymo Driver has provided over one million rider-only trips, enabled by its experience autonomously driving tens of millions of miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 13+ U.S. states.

Waymo is a self-driving technology company with a mission to make it safe and easy for people and things to get where they're going. Since our start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has been focused on building the World's Most Experienced Driver in hopes of improving the world's access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes. Our Waymo Driver powers Waymo One, our autonomous ride-hailing service, as well as Waymo Via, our trucking and local delivery service. To date, Waymo has driven over 20 million miles autonomously on public roads across 25 U.S. cities and conducted over 15 billion miles of simulation testing.

Waymo interns work alongside leaders in the industry on projects that deliver significant impact to the company. We believe learning is a two-way street: leveraging 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!

In this internship, you’ll:

  • Design and develop deep learning models, including Vision Language Models (VLMs) and Large Language Models (LLMs), on real-world sensor data (cameras, LiDAR, radars)
  • Explore leveraging VLM’s world knowledge and reasoning capabilities to improve various driving tasks
  • Collaborate and work in partnership with research teams across Alphabet

At a minimum we’d like you to 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

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

$50.48$50.48 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

$60.10$60.10 USD

Top Skills

Python
The Company
Mountain View, CA
2,359 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 2009

What We Do

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with a mission to make it safe and easy for people and things to move around. With the Waymo Driver, we can improve the world’s mobility while saving thousands of lives.
Waymo reaches out to candidates from official channels only (e.g. directly from @waymo.com email addresses, or through our recruiters or sourcers who are noted as such on LinkedIn). We do not contact candidates about career opportunities through instant messaging apps like Telegram, email addresses from domains other than waymo.com (such as Gmail addresses), direct messages on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram, or text messages. Visit waymo.com to check out our official job listings.

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