2027 Summer Intern, PhD, Research, AV Planning

Posted

WaymoMountain View, CA, USAfull-time

Tech Stack

Responsibilities

  • Design, implement, and benchmark a system where LLM meta-agents generate and refine reward functions for autonomous driving policies
  • Diagnose policy failure modes, reward exploitation, and multi-objective trade-offs to integrate into automated discovery loops
  • Collaborate with scientists and engineers to transfer validated reward formulations into planner recipes
  • Document research outcomes and prepare findings for internal tech transfers and potential conference publication

Benefits

  • Equity

Culture

Hybrid WorkCross-Functional Teams

Requirements

Required: PhD in Computer Science, Robotics, Machine Learning, or a related quantitative field (In Progress)
Regions: Us

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