2027 Summer Intern, PhD, Research, AV Planning

Waymo · Mountain View

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Company
Waymo
Location
Mountain View
Employment type
Internship
Salary
$85 — $85
Posted
October 9, 2026

About this job

Design, implement, and benchmark a system where LLM meta-agents generate, synthesize, and iteratively refine reward functions for autonomous driving planning policies Diagnose policy failure modes, reward exploitation, and multi-objective trade-offs, integrating findings back into the automated discovery loop Collaborate with scientists engineers to transfer validated reward formulations and tooling into planner recipes Document research outcomes, distill key design patterns, and prepare findings for internal tech transfers and potential conference publication You have: Currently pursuing a PhD in Computer Science, Robotics, Machine Learning, or a related quantitative field Strong hands-on experience in Reinforcement Learning (RL / RLFT) and training deep learning policies with PyTorch or…

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