2027 Summer Intern, PhD, Perception Systems Engineering: Pedestrian Detection Precision
Waymo · San Francisco
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- Company
- Waymo
- Location
- San Francisco
- Employment type
- Internship
- Salary
- $85 — $85
- Posted
- September 28, 2026
About this job
Determine and author requirements and verification items for detection models that cover pedestrians near the Waymo vehicle. Collect and analyze data from existing logs and/or structured tests to test these requirements and identify false-positive clusters. Run evaluations and triage results to track performance and identify release-over-release changes. Leverage the evaluation framework you build to highlight areas with headroom and help the Perception teams hillclimb. You have: Currently pursuing a PhD in a technical field, such as Engineering, Physics, CS, etc. Software engineering fundamentals Familiarity with systems engineering, particularly the logical flow of requirements to tests We prefer: Experience handling large data sets/queries (e.g., SQL, Python) and/or automating test…
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