# 2027 Summer Intern, MS/PhD, Machine Learning Engineer at Waymo

- Company: Waymo
- What the company does: Waymo—formerly the Google self-driving car project—makes it safe and easy for people & things to get around with autonomous vehicles. Take a ride now. Backed by Bessemer, Kleiner Perkins and Sequoia.
- Company website: https://waymo.com/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Internship
- Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-09-22
- Apply by: 2026-11-06
- Apply: https://careers.withwaymo.com/jobs?gh_jid=8223735
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/waymo-2027-summer-intern-ms-phd-machine-learning-engineer/

## About the role

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.

## What they're looking for

- Currently enrolled in an PhD or MS program in Computer Science, Machine Learning or a related field, returning to the program after the internship
- Hands-on experience training and evaluating deep learning models in a modern framework (JAX, PyTorch or TensorFlow), including building data pipelines, choosing losses, and debugging training runs
- Strong programming skills in C++/Python, plus a solid grounding in ML fundamentals: precision/recall trade-offs, class imbalance, evaluation metric selection, and rigorous experiment design

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