2027 Summer Intern, PhD, Data Science

About the job

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.

Data Scientists at Waymo work on a wide variety of evaluation and modeling problems, including safety evaluation, the simulation technology, driving quality and rider experience. Furthermore, data scientists conduct rigorous analysis of the Waymo Driver performance across software releases, new territories, hardware generations, and throughout the software development process. This role works with a variety of teams across the company to inject data science rigor and perspective, and to influence development direction in many of the critical systems in self-driving technology and fleet operations.