Intern
Software Engineering, Commercialization
Posted on 10/2/2025

Waymo
Compensation Overview
$48.08 - $50.49/hr
San Francisco, CA, USA + 1 more
More locations: Mountain View, CA, USA
Hybrid
This is a hybrid onsite internship position.
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.
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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:
- 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
- Design and solve problems in vehicle routing, passenger destination suggestions, vehicle dispatch optimization, and ETA prediction
You have:
- Progress towards BS or MS in Computer Science or related technical field
- Interest in infrastructure work: building internal tools, frameworks, and libraries
- Excellent communication skills - both technically with other engineers, and with non-technical stakeholders
- Excitement 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.

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