CareerPlan

2027 Summer Intern, PhD, AI Foundations - Recipes

Mountain View (US-MTV-EMF680)Internship2026-10-22 → 2026-11-10
Hybrid

Core

Design and conduct experiments on large-scale generative or foundation model training recipes and analyze model evaluation metrics to optimize performance for autonomous driving.

Role type

Summer PhD intern (AI Foundations)

Builds

Novel techniques integrated into production training pipelines for the Waymo Driver

Domain

Autonomous driving, machine learning, generative modeling

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

deep learning, transformer architectures, generative modeling, Python, PyTorch, JAX, TensorFlow

Preferred skills

distributed training on multi-node GPU/TPU clusters, autonomous driving perception/prediction/planning, publications at top-tier AI/ML conferences

Responsibilities

Design and conduct experiments on large-scale generative or foundation model training recipes, Analyze model evaluation metrics to identify performance bottlenecks and optimization strategies, Collaborate with researchers and engineers to integrate novel techniques into production training pipelines

Seniority

Summer Intern