2027 Summer Intern, PhD, Research, RSI for Autonomous Driving
Hybrid
Core
Researching and implementing Recursive Self-Improvement (RSI) systems and physics AI foundational models to improve the quality of Waymo's autonomous driving driver.
Role type
PhD Research Intern (Autonomous Driving / RL)
Builds
Waymo Driver autonomous vehicle system
Domain
Autonomous Driving, Robotics, Machine Learning
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
RL training frameworks (Rex, Verl, NeMo-RL), Transformer architecture, Hyperparameter tuning, AI coding agents, Physics AI, World models
Preferred skills
RL for robotics, World action models, Video generation models, Recursive Self-Improvement training
Responsibilities
Conduct literature research on SOTA RSI and physics AI models, Design data and post-training recipes for RL, Code and implement RSI systems, Inspect training results and perform ablation studies
