2026 Summer Intern

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:

• Improve large-scale infrastructure: You could work on components for distributed training, automation solutions, and system health monitoring.
• Optimize performance: A core part of the role is identifying and resolving performance bottlenecks in the ML infrastructure, often by using profiling tools and applying optimization techniques.
• Collaborate with engineering teams: You would work closely with research and production teams to enhance the scalability, reliability, and performance of ML models.
• Build tools and frameworks: This could involve developing tools to instrument and inspect ML models, or creating automation for provisioning, deployment, and monitoring.

You have:

• Currently progressing towards BS in Computer Science or a related technical field with at least one academic term remaining after the internship period.
• Experience with C++.

We prefer:

• Proficiency in C++, Python and SQL.
• Knowledge of microservices.
• Familiarity with distributed systems and cloud computing platforms (e.g., GCP).

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.