PhD Research Scientist Intern — Hybrid, High-Impact ML/RL

First Roles; Mountain View (CA); Híbrido; USD 97.000 - 138.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Waymo offers a hybrid onsite internship in Mountain View for PhD students focused on autonomous driving software and ML. You will research SOTA literature from frontier labs and prototype solutions to bottlenecks such as shortcut learning and input sensitivity.

This role seeks a candidate who can contribute to cutting-edge research within the Waymo Driver program. Ideal candidates are enrolled in a PhD program in CS, robotics, EE, or related quantitative field, with strong Python and ML

Formación

• Currently enrolled in a PhD program in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, or a related quantitative field.
• Foundational ML knowledge (pre-LLM era).
• Expert knowledge on LLM, VLM, VLA.
• Strong software development experience in Python and debugging capability.
• Prefer: RL knowledge and understanding of modern thinking mode.

Responsabilidades

• Research and read SOTA literature from frontier labs.
• Prototype research solutions to current system bottlenecks (shortcut learning, sensitivity w.r.t inputs, etc.).
• Ideally own a medium-to-large scale End-to-End research project to develop the next-gen critic model at Waymo.

Conocimientos

PhD candidate in CS/Robotics

Foundational ML knowledge

Expert knowledge on LLM/VLM/VLA

Python programming

Debugging capability

Strong software development

Educación

PhD in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering or related field

Descripción del empleo

Waymo offers a hybrid onsite internship in Mountain View for PhD students focused on autonomous driving software and ML. You will research SOTA literature from frontier labs and prototype solutions to bottlenecks such as shortcut learning and input sensitivity.

This role seeks a candidate who can contribute to cutting-edge research within the Waymo Driver program. Ideal candidates are enrolled in a PhD program in CS, robotics, EE, or related quantitative field, with strong Python and ML