2025 Summer Intern, PhD, Data Science Job at Waymo, California

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  • Waymo
  • California

Job Description

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the 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 One, a fully autonomous ride-hailing service, and can also be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases. The Waymo Driver has provided over one million rider-only trips, enabled by its experience autonomously driving tens of millions of miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 13+ U.S. states.

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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

As a Waymo Data Science intern, you will work on evaluating the driving quality of the Waymo Driver, with a particular focus on software reliability. This project may involve

  • Evaluate and propose improvements to the automatic clustering algorithms for reliability issues;
  • Improve importance sampling techniques to maximize discoveries of novel reliability issues;
  • Build real-time monitoring of reliability issues in scaled rider-only deployments, esp. focusing on novel regression monitoring during the ramp-up periods of new release candidates.

You Have

  • Pursuing PhD in a quantitative field (e.g. Statistics, Mathematics, Physics, Engineering, Economics, Political Science)
  • Fluency in Python, basic knowledge of SQL
  • Familiarity with foundational statistical concepts (hypothesis testing frameworks, Bayesian methods) and practical ML evaluation

We Prefer

  • 3+ years of experience in data wrangling, visualization and data-driven storytelling
  • Fluency in SQL
  • Prior internship in companies

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 PhD Pay

$60.10—$60.10 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

$60.10—$60.10 USD

Job Tags

Hourly pay, Full time, Internship, Summer internship,

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