CareerPlan

2027 Summer Intern, MS/PhD, Perception, Model Lifecycle

Mountain View (US-MTV-EMF680)Internship2026-10-12 → 2026-11-10
On-site

Core

Accelerate Waymo's ML development cycle by building datasets, training and evaluating perception models, and analyzing model failures to improve the autonomous driving system.

Role type

Summer Intern, Perception Model Lifecycle

Builds

Perception models for the Waymo Driver autonomous vehicle system

Domain

Autonomous driving, Computer Vision, Machine Learning

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Deep learning model training and evaluation, Dataset building and curation, Python programming, Experimental design and analysis, Multi-sensor data handling (camera, lidar, radar), Model optimization

Preferred skills

End-to-end ML project ownership, Data-centric ML experience, Perception tasks (3D detection, tracking, segmentation), Distributed data processing, Publications in ML/CV venues