PhD Intern: Visual Reasoning for Autonomous Driving Hybrid

Waymo LLC; Mountain View (CA); Hybrid; USD 97,000 - 138,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Benefits programs eligible

Job summary

Waymo LLC in Mountain View, CA is seeking a PhD candidate to contribute to the Waymo AI Foundations team. You will research and develop novel visual and spatio-temporal reasoning methods for multimodal perception using autonomous-vehicle sensor data.

You will implement post-training recipes—SFT and RL—to improve perception generalization in long-tail driving scenarios, and conduct large-scale experiments with opportunities to publish at top AI conferences.

Qualifications

• PhD candidate in a technical field related to perception, ML, or robotics.
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Responsibilities

• Research and develop novel visual and spatio-temporal reasoning methods for multimodal perception foundation models.
• Design and implement post-training recipes including SFT and RL to improve perception in long-tail driving scenarios.

Skills

Publications in perception

LLM/VLM familiarity

Education

PhD in Computer Science / ML / Robotics

Tools

Python

PyTorch

JAX

TensorFlow

Job description

Waymo LLC in Mountain View, CA is seeking a PhD candidate to contribute to the Waymo AI Foundations team. You will research and develop novel visual and spatio-temporal reasoning methods for multimodal perception using autonomous-vehicle sensor data.

You will implement post-training recipes—SFT and RL—to improve perception generalization in long-tail driving scenarios, and conduct large-scale experiments with opportunities to publish at top AI conferences.