Hybrid Internship: Backend & ML for Autonomous Driving

Waymo; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 83,000 - 96,000; Full time

Job summary

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company hiring for an internship that blends backend infrastructure work with cutting-edge AI and large-scale systems. You will contribute to stabilizing backend services, build tools and frameworks, and help optimize the robotaxi marketplace while collaborating with engineers across the company.

Applicants should be pursuing BS or MS in Computer Science or a related field, with interest in distributed systems, backend development, and self‑driving

Qualifications

• Progressing towards BS or MS in Computer Science or related technical field.
• Interested in infrastructure work: building internal tools, frameworks, and libraries.
• Excellent communication skills - both technically with other engineers, and with non‑technical stakeholders.
• Excited about working on self‑driving cars!

Responsibilities

• Work on backend infrastructure stability and reliability.
• Feature work in applications such as Event Response or vehicle maintenance tracking.
• Optimize robotaxi marketplace to balance the supply and demand of Waymo's robotaxi services.
• Design and build backend and infrastructure that supports various ride hailing businesses and AV fleet management.
• Design and build ML and optimization models for predicting vehicle routing, future demand, passenger destination suggestions, vehicle dispatch optimization, and ETA prediction

Skills

Distributed systems

Backend development

C++ programming

Education

BS in Computer Science

MS in Computer Science

Job description

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company hiring for an internship that blends backend infrastructure work with cutting-edge AI and large-scale systems. You will contribute to stabilizing backend services, build tools and frameworks, and help optimize the robotaxi marketplace while collaborating with engineers across the company.

Applicants should be pursuing BS or MS in Computer Science or a related field, with interest in distributed systems, backend development, and self‑driving