2027 Summer Intern, PhD, Research Scientist, Visual Reasoning

Waymo, Mountain View, CA +1

What you will do

Research and develop novel visual and spatio-temporal reasoning methods for multimodal Perception Foundation Models using AV sensor data
Design and implement post-training recipes—including Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) and Reinforcement Learning (RL)—to improve perception generalization in long-tail autonomous driving scenarios
Conduct large-scale experiments and ablation studies on autonomous driving benchmarks, with the opportunity to publish findings at top-tier AI/CV conferences (e.g., CVPR/ICCV/ECCV/NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML)

Currently pursuing a PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Robotics, Electrical Engineering or a related technical field
Hands-on experience & strong publications in perception, and/or LLM/VLM
Knowledge of pre-training and post-training of the large foundation models
Strong Python coding skills with expertise in modern deep learning frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, JAX, TensorFlow)

Waymo, Mountain View, CA +1

Research and develop novel visual and spatio-temporal reasoning methods for multimodal Perception Foundation Models using AV sensor data
Design and implement post-training recipes—including Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) and Reinforcement Learning (RL)—to improve perception generalization in long-tail autonomous driving scenarios
Conduct large-scale experiments and ablation studies on autonomous driving benchmarks, with the opportunity to publish findings at top-tier AI/CV conferences (e.g., CVPR/ICCV/ECCV/NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML)

Currently pursuing a PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Robotics, Electrical Engineering or a related technical field
Hands-on experience & strong publications in perception, and/or LLM/VLM
Knowledge of pre-training and post-training of the large foundation models
Strong Python coding skills with expertise in modern deep learning frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, JAX, TensorFlow)