2027 Summer Intern, BS/MS, Software Engineering, Commercialization

Software Engineering builds the brains of Waymo's fully autonomous driving technology. Our software allows the Waymo Driver to perceive the world around it, make the right decision for every situation, and deliver people safely to their destinations. We think deeply and solve complex technical challenges in areas like robotics, perception, decision-making and deep learning, while collaborating with hardware and systems engineers. If you’re a software engineer or researcher who’s curious and passionate about Level 4 autonomous driving, we'd like to meet you. 

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:

• Work on backend infrastructure stability and reliability
• Feature work in applications such as Event Response or vehicle maintenance tracking
• Optimize robotaxi marketplace to balance the supply and demand of Waymo’s robotaxi services
• Design and develop backend and infrastructure that supports various ride hailing businesses and AV fleet management
• Design and build ML and optimization models for predicting vehicle routing, future demand, passenger destination suggestions, vehicle dispatch optimization, and ETA prediction 

You have:

• Progressing towards BS or MS in Computer Science or related technical field
• Interested in infrastructure work: building internal tools, frameworks, and libraries
• Interested in working in scaling commercial operations 
• Excellent communication skills - both technically with other engineers, and with non-technical stakeholders
• Excited about working on self-driving cars!

We prefer:

• Experience in general distributed systems and backend development
• Experience programming in C++ and/or with writing robust, efficient code

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.