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

Software Engineering builds the brains of Waymo'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. 

You'll be joining the team that leads the end-to-end integration and evaluation of the Waymo ML Data Flywheel. We work with all stages of the system, from data mining to eval model training to improve the way Waymo develops the Waymo Driver.

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:

• 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

• 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)

Nice to have

• 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
• Track record of taking ambiguous, open-ended problem statements and turning them into practical, working software systems
• Prior research or project experience in autonomous driving, robotics, or spatial-temporal data analysis