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

Waymo · A)

Pay: $60–$70/hr
Where: Mountain View, California, United States; San Francisco, California, United States
Posted: Sep 14

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.

Software Engineering builds the brains of Waymo's fully autonomous driving technology.

What you'd do

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

What they want

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