2027 Summer Intern, MS, Software Engineering, Behavior Test
Waymo · A)
- Pay
- $70/hr
- Where
- San Francisco, California, USA
- Posted
- Sep 3
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.
Waymo's Systems Engineering team works together to blend software and hardware systems in groundbreaking new ways.
What you'd do
- Design and implement metrics, test plans, and simulated scenarios for testing the autonomous vehicle in off-nominal situations, such as after a fault occurs or when remote assistance is needed, across multiple platforms and in support of rapid commercialization
- Create dashboards to monitor, visualize, and analyze fleet-wide autonomous vehicle fault rates on public roads
- Support the Verification and Validation (V&V) of Fault Protection and Remote Assistance behaviors.
- Build automated pipelines using Python and SQL to update, version, and validate test coverage across safety-critical driving scenarios.
What they want
- Currently enrolled in a MS program in an engineering, computer science, or a related technical field of study
- Enthusiasm to understand a complex system and its various components
- Experience with data analysis/modeling using Python and SQL
- Familiarity with autonomous vehicle technology and systems engineering principles.
- Comfortable with ambiguous problems in a fast paced environment.