Waymo
Systems Engineering Intern
Overview
Waymo interns partner with leaders in the industry on projects that create impact to the company. We are looking for an intern for the Systems Engineering team to work on conflict behavior.
About Waymo
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.
Requirements & Eligibility
- Currently pursuing an Master's or PhD degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, Statistics, Data Science, or a related quantitative field
- Proficiency in Python and/or C++
- Experience analyzing, wrangling, and visualizing large-scale datasets
- Demonstrated analytical and statistical skills for validating quantitative models
Key Responsibilities
- Calibrate and validate physical reachability and safety-margin metrics against expert human evaluations to quantify "proactive caution" in complex scenarios
- Analyze large-scale real-world and simulated driving logs to evaluate model accuracy, characterize edge cases, and optimize trade-offs
- Partner cross-functionally to integrate quantitative safety signals into automated event triage and release-readiness workflows
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