2026 Summer Intern, MS/PhD, ML Architecture, Software Engineer

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Mountain View, CA, USA
In-Office
70-70 Annually
Automotive
The Role

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waymo Driver—The World's Most Experienced Driver™—to improve access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes. The Waymo Driver powers Waymo’s fully autonomous ride-hail service and can also be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases. The Waymo Driver has provided over ten million rider-only trips, enabled by its experience autonomously driving over 100 million miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 15+ U.S. states.

Waymo interns partner with leaders in the industry on projects that create impact to the company. We believe learning is a two-way street: applying your knowledge while providing you with opportunities to expand your skill-set. Interns are an important part of our culture and our recruiting pipeline. Join us at Waymo for a fun and rewarding internship!

You will:

  • Understand difficult-to-visualize manipulations and computations on 4-5 dimensional tensors, devise ways to express them cleanly and implement them on domain-specific architectures
  • Deep dive into the capabilities of unfamiliar hardware to map operations to it
  • Quickly create minimally featured software prototypes with light automated testing to explore a design space

You have:

  • GPU, Pallas or other accelerator programming
  • Computer architecture fundamentals
  • Professional competency in C++ or Python
  • Currently pursuing a PhD in related field or Masters with significant industry experience

We prefer:

  • Experience with compilers for CPU or GPU or ML accelerators
  • Experience with NVIDIA CUTLASS, CuTile, Pallas, or Triton-like Domain Specific Languages
  • Experience with MLIR, JAX, ONNX, StableHLO or similar compiler intermediate representations

Note: This will be a hybrid onsite internship position. We will accept resumes on a rolling basis until the role is filled. To be in consideration for multiple roles, you will need to apply to each one individually - please apply to the top 3 roles you are interested in.

The expected hourly rate for this full-time position is listed below. Interns are also eligible to participate in the Company’s generous benefits programs, subject to eligibility requirements.
Hourly Masters Pay
$70$70 USD
The expected hourly rate for this full-time position is listed below. Interns are also eligible to participate in the Company’s generous benefits programs, subject to eligibility requirements.
Hourly PhD Pay
$85$85 USD

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The Company
Mountain View, CA
2,359 Employees
Year Founded: 2009

What We Do

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with a mission to make it safe and easy for people and things to move around. With the Waymo Driver, we can improve the world’s mobility while saving thousands of lives. Waymo reaches out to candidates from official channels only (e.g. directly from @waymo.com email addresses, or through our recruiters or sourcers who are noted as such on LinkedIn). We do not contact candidates about career opportunities through instant messaging apps like Telegram, email addresses from domains other than waymo.com (such as Gmail addresses), direct messages on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram, or text messages. Visit waymo.com to check out our official job listings.

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