# 2027 Summer Intern, MS/PhD, AI-driven ML Performance Engineering Intern at Waymo

- Company: Waymo
- Status: Open
- Workplace: On-site
- Location: Mountain View, CA, USA
- Level: Junior
- Discipline: AI & ML
- Employment: Internship
- Salary: $70–85/hr
- Posted: 2026-10-01
- Skills: Pipeline (N/A)
- Apply: https://careers.withwaymo.com/jobs?gh_jid=8248060

## Description

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.
 We are a team that tdesigns and implements the hardware, compiler, and software frameworks for the ML accelerators in Waymo’s custom silicon. The team’s expertise spans all phases of custom accelerator production from architecture through software integration, and leverages Waymo’s decades of experience to optimize the design space for the needs of our autonomous driving software
 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: 
• Work with AI agents to create high performance low-level kernels in a Domain-Specific language for a custom ML accelerator
• Ensure functional co

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