2027 Summer Intern, PhD, Machine Learning - Generative World Models & Controllable Simulation
Waymo · Posted Nov 6, 2026
- Mountain View, California, United States
- Hybrid
- Internship · Intern
- $85–$85 per hour
PhD-level internship focused on generative world models, controllable simulation, and multimodal conditioning for autonomous driving technology.
Compensation
Hourly PhD Pay: $85—$85 USD
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and scale controllable generation and test-time compute algorithms, multimodal conditioning, and critic-guided flow/diffusion steering—for foundation world models.
- Investigate multimodal sensor + semantic latent conditioning, and representation alignment to advance toward holistic world simulation.
- Leverage learned realism critics and agentic autoresearch workflows on large-scale TPU clusters to evaluate closed-loop interactive realism, long-tail scenario synthesis, and multimodal consistency.
- Write clean, modular, and well-tested JAX code in core simulation and world-modeling codebases, collaborating closely with researchers across Sim Realism, Foundation Models, and Closed-Loop Training teams.
Requirements
- PhD in Computer Science
- Machine Learning
- Robotics
- related technical field
- Nice to have: First-author publications at top-tier venues (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR, ECCV, CoRL, RSS, ICRA)