PhD Visual Reasoning Intern — AI Foundations (Hybrid)

First Roles; Mountain View (CA); Hybrid; USD 97,000 - 138,000; Full time

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Benefits programs

Job summary

Waymo is seeking a Summer Intern for PhD-level research in visual reasoning and multimodal perception. You will research and develop methods using AV sensor data, and design post-training recipes such as SFT and RL to improve perception in long-tail scenarios.

You will run large-scale experiments and may publish findings at top AI conferences. The role is hybrid onsite at Mountain View, CA, with applications rolling and internship-friendly compensation.

Qualifications

• Pursuing PhD in Computer Science, ML, Robotics, or related field.
• Strong publications in perception and/or LLM/VLM.
• Excellent Python coding skills with PyTorch or similar frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Research and develop visual and spatio-temporal reasoning methods for multimodal perception.
• Design and implement post-training recipes (SFT/RL) to improve perception generalization.
• Run large-scale experiments and ablation studies on AV benchmarks and publish findings at top AI conferences.

Skills

Perception

LLM/VLM

Python

PyTorch

Job description

Waymo is seeking a Summer Intern for PhD-level research in visual reasoning and multimodal perception. You will research and develop methods using AV sensor data, and design post-training recipes such as SFT and RL to improve perception in long-tail scenarios.

You will run large-scale experiments and may publish findings at top AI conferences. The role is hybrid onsite at Mountain View, CA, with applications rolling and internship-friendly compensation.