2025 Summer Intern, MS/PhD, Lidar Technologist

Company: Waymo
Location: Mountain View
Posted on: November 11, 2024

Job Description:

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the 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 One, a fully autonomous ride-hailing service, and can also be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases. The Waymo Driver has provided over one million rider-only trips, enabled by its experience autonomously driving tens of millions of miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 13+ U.S. states.Waymo is a self-driving technology company with a mission to make it safe and easy for people and things to get where they're going. Since our start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has been focused on building the World's Most Experienced Driver in hopes of improving the world's access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes. Our Waymo Driver powers Waymo One, our autonomous ride-hailing service, as well as Waymo Via, our trucking and local delivery service. To date, Waymo has driven over 20 million miles autonomously on public roads across 25 U.S. cities and conducted over 15 billion miles of simulation testing.
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 work alongside leaders in the industry on projects that deliver significant impact to the company. We believe learning is a two-way street: leveraging 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!
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• PhD/Masters candidate in Engineering or Physical Sciences or equivalent.
  
• Experience designing, analyzing, modeling, prototyping and working with complex optical systems.
  
• Ability to do data analysis in Python/Numpy/Pandas
  
• Track record of innovation and solving challenging problems
  
  We prefer:
  
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  • PhD candidate
    
  • Familiarity with lidar technology
    
  • Experience writing software in C++ or doing SQL queries
    
  • Experience using and programming laboratory instruments: oscilloscopes, electrical/optical instrumentation, etc.
    
  • Strong understanding of optical semiconductors (lasers, detectors)
    
  • Proven hands-on experience at power-user level in computational physics simulation (e.g. Comsol) or from-scratch analytical physics modeling (e.g. Matlab/Python/Mathematica) and a track record of working across multiple physics disciplines
    
  • Great communication and presentation skills
    The expected hourly rate for this full-time position is listed below. Interns are also eligible to participate in the Company's generous benefits programs, subject to eligibility requirements.Hourly Masters Pay$50.48-$50.48 USDThe expected hourly rate for this full-time position is listed below. Interns are also eligible to participate in the Company's generous benefits programs, subject to eligibility requirements.Hourly PhD Pay$60.10-$60.10 USD

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