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

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