2025 Summer Intern, PhD, Research - Foundation Model Evaluation

The mission of the Waymo Research team is to develop machine learning solutions addressing open problems in autonomous driving, towards the goal of safely operating Waymo vehicles in dozens of cities and under all driving conditions. As part of our work, we also initiate and foster collaborations with other research teams in Alphabet. Research areas that we are currently focusing on include reinforcement learning, learning from demonstration, generative modeling, Bayesian inference, hierarchical learning, and robust evaluation.

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!

You will:

• Work with a variety of state-of-the-art Foundation Models (similar to Waymo’s MotionLM publication).
• Research novel ways to evaluate the quality, safety and realism of our embodied AI agents.
• Collaborate with partner teams across waymo to launch novel eval products which advance business needs.
• Leverage our industry-leading datasets and state-of-the-art safety framework to land fleet-wide improvements in model performance.
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You have:

• Currently enrolled in a Masters or PhD program in Computer Science, Robotics, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, or a related technical field of study.
• Experience with Python
• Experience with Machine Learning
• Familiarity with one of the modern deep learning frameworks (e.g. Pytorch, JAX, Tensorflow)

We prefer:

• Prior industry experience (including internships) in software engineering and ML roles
• Prior work in an industrial or research setting developing methodologies for the evaluation of ML models

Note: This will be a hybrid onsite internship position. We will accept resumes on a rolling basis until the role is filled. To be in consideration for multiple roles, you will need to apply to each one individually - please apply to the top 3 roles you are interested in.

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