PhD Intern: Vehicle Intent & Prediction (ML)

Socket.dev; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 97,000 - 138,000; Full time

Job summary

Waymo in California is seeking a PhD student for an internship focused on machine learning for autonomous driving. You will train and evaluate models, leverage existing data, and help design signals for data quality.

This paid internship offers opportunities to work with cutting-edge robotics, perception, and deep learning teams; on-site in Mountain View with competitive benefits for interns.

Qualifications

• Currently enrolled in a PhD program.
• Experience with ML coding in Python (JAX or PyTorch).
• Strong foundation in statistics and mathematics.
• Familiarity with neural networks.

Responsibilities

• Train & evaluate Loss of Control model to evaluate quality impact of your changes.
• Leverage existing learned models to derive signal on data quality.
• Design & implement measures of effectiveness of said signals.
• Develop or augment data pipelines to annotate synthetic training data with said signals.

Skills

Python (ML)

Statistics

Neural networks

JAX/PyTorch

Education

PhD candidate

Tools

C++

Job description

Waymo in California is seeking a PhD student for an internship focused on machine learning for autonomous driving. You will train and evaluate models, leverage existing data, and help design signals for data quality.

This paid internship offers opportunities to work with cutting-edge robotics, perception, and deep learning teams; on-site in Mountain View with competitive benefits for interns.