2027 Summer Intern, BS/MS, Software Engineering, Commercialization
- Level
- Intern
Not stated in the posting: salary, work type, visa.
Open. First seen 3 October 2026.
About the role
Waymo's standard text
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.
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 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 on backend infrastructure stability and reliability
- Feature work in applications such as Event Response or vehicle maintenance tracking
- Optimize robotaxi marketplace to balance the supply and demand of Waymo’s robotaxi services
- Design and develop backend and infrastructure that supports various ride hailing businesses and AV fleet management
- Design and build ML and optimization models for predicting vehicle routing, future demand, passenger destination suggestions, vehicle dispatch optimization, and ETA prediction
You have:
- Progressing towards BS or MS in Computer Science or related technical field
- Interested in infrastructure work: building internal tools, frameworks, and libraries
- Interested in working in scaling commercial operations
- Excellent communication skills - both technically with other engineers, and with non-technical stakeholders
- Excited about working on self-driving cars!
We prefer:
- Experience in general distributed systems and backend development
- Experience programming in C++ and/or with writing robust, efficient code
Note: This will be a hybrid onsite internship position. We will accept resumes on a rolling basis until the role is filled. To be in consideration for multiple roles, you will need to apply to each one individually - please apply to the top 3 roles you are interested in.
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 Bachelors Pay
$60—$60 USD
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
$70—$70 USD
What this role asks for
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The team: CSI (7LV) HIRES STEADILY
This role is one of 22 open in CSI (7LV). 8 were posted in the last 30 days and the oldest in December: a team that hires all year rather than one being built.
WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS
C++ (19 of 22), Machine Learning (7 of 22), Java (4 of 22), Python (4 of 22), Kotlin (3 of 22), Spark (3 of 22), SQL (3 of 22)
OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM
- Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Growth posted Oct 13
- Machine Learning Engineer - Gen SWE posted Oct 13
- Software Engineer, Real-Time Communication Infrastructure posted Oct 7
- Senior Software Engineer, Chassis posted Oct 1
- Senior Software Engineer posted Sep 29
- Senior Software Engineer - ML/ Fraud Prevention posted Sep 21
- Senior Software Engineer, Mission Planning posted Sep 21
- Senior Software Engineer, Supply Infrastructure posted Sep 21
- Staff Android Engineer, In-Car Experience posted Sep 15
- Senior Software Engineer, Mapping Data & Eval posted Sep 10
- Senior Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Lead posted Sep 4
- Staff Software Engineer, Fleet Optimization posted Aug 31
- Sr. Staff Data Architect posted Aug 31
- Site Reliability Engineering, Technical Lead Manager posted Aug 25
- Software Engineer, Marketplace Logistic posted Aug 18
- Sr. Staff Software Engineer, Fleet Orchestration, TLM posted Jul 25
- Senior Software Engineer, Fleet Response Infrastructure posted Jul 22
- Senior Software Engineer, ICX Graphics posted Jul 21
- Staff Software Engineer, Driver Validation posted May 27
- Senior Data Engineer posted Dec 9
- Marketplace Platform, TLM posted Dec 4
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