# 2027 Summer Intern, PhD, Machine Learning - Simulation & Closed-Loop Training 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: Mountain View, California, United States
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-10-19
- Apply by: 2026-12-03
- Apply: https://careers.withwaymo.com/jobs?gh_jid=8283558&utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/waymo-2027-summer-intern-phd-machine-learning-simulation-and-closed-loop-trainin/

## 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. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- Develop learned reward models, realism critics, and discriminators within a closed-loop multi-agent simulator to align simulated agent and driving behaviors with human driving realism and safety
- Write clean, modular, and well-tested JAX code in core simulation and autonomous driving codebases, collaborating closely with researchers and engineers across simulation, world modeling, and autonomous driving teams
- Experience with multi-agent closed-loop simulation, Sim2Real transfer, or reward-hacking mitigation (e.g., Waymax, WOMD, NuPlan, IsaacGym/MuJoCo, adversarial traffic generation, or discriminator stabilization)
- Experience profiling and scaling distributed training workloads on TPUs or multi-node GPUs (such as XLA compilation, vectorized batched rollouts, and memory optimization) and familiarity with C++/Python interfaces

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