2026 Summer Intern, BS/MS, Generative Synthetic Data

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.

ML-Platform, Labeling Platform: The team works on generating data and annotations to train models across Waymo. In general, our team owns pipelines and infrastructure to provide labeled data to downstream teams for training and evaluation.

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:

• Design and implement backend systems for synthetic data generation and delivery
• Optimize infrastructure to run inference for generative image and video models
• Collaborate with Perception, ML-Infra and Simulation to solve problems associated with synthetic data

You Have:

• Knowledge of data structures and algorithms
• Software development experience with C++

We Prefer:

• C++ Proficiency
• Python proficiency
• Experience working with ML pipelines: training, hosting, or inference
• Experience working with generative image models, generative video models, or synthetic data

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 Bachelors Pay$48.08—$48.08 USDThe 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 Masters Pay$50.49—$50.49 USD