17 hours ago
Mountain View, CA, USAIntern
H1B sponsor
Responsibilities
- Analyze internal feature representations of deep multimodal perception foundation models.
- Design and implement active learning and intelligent data curation algorithms for rare, safety-critical edge cases.
- Explore automated data labeling and validation workflows using Vision-Language Models.
- Train, fine-tune, and evaluate deep neural networks.
- Validate model performance on autonomous-vehicle sensor datasets and simulation environments.
Requirements
- Currently enrolled in a PhD program in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, or a related quantitative field.
- Experience programming in Python and C++.
- Practical experience training, fine-tuning, and evaluating deep learning models for computer vision or multimodal perception using tools such as PyTorch, JAX, or TensorFlow.
- Understanding of modern neural architectures such as Vision Transformers and multimodal sensor encoders.
- Preferred: research experience or publications in active learning, self-supervised representation learning, core-set selection, or multimodal foundation models.
- Preferred: hands-on experience with multi-camera or 3D LiDAR perception systems in robotics or autonomous driving.
- Preferred: experience building VLM evaluation or judge pipelines or large-scale data mining workflows.
- Preferred: familiarity with high-dimensional feature analysis and clustering techniques.
Benefits
- Hybrid onsite work arrangement.
- Full-time summer internship with applications accepted on a rolling basis until the role is filled.
- Interns are eligible for the company’s benefits programs, subject to eligibility requirements.
- Hourly PhD pay is $85.
Categories
ML EngineeringRobotics
About Waymo
Waymo develops the Waymo Driver, a full-stack autonomous driving system, and operates the Waymo One robotaxi service that offers paid, driverless rides in select U.S. cities. The company monetizes through ride-hailing fares and partnerships integrating its technology on multiple vehicle platforms. Founded in 2009 as Google’s self-driving project, Waymo is headquartered in Mountain View and is an Alphabet subsidiary, with over 10 million rider-only trips and 100+ million autonomous miles on public roads.