2024 Intern

Waymo is an autonomous 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 Waymo Driver—The World’s Most Experienced Driver™—to improve everyone’s access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes. Our Waymo Driver powers Waymo One, our fully 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 20 billion miles of simulation testing.

At Waymo, we are mission-driven and believe deeply in the opportunity of autonomous driving technology to improve mobility and make people’s lives better. We are united by purpose and responsibility (for our employees and riders alike). We are looking for kind, committed, employees who have integrity, dream big, work together as one team and create a sense of belonging for one another that is the foundation of our culture. We want each team member to feel welcomed and included in every step of our exciting journey. 

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!

The transportation & ride-hailing infrastructure team builds the backend software and software on the car to operate Waymo’s fully self-driving vehicles as a commercial service. Our systems allow our vehicles to deliver people and goods safely and efficiently to their destinations. We think deeply and solve complex technical challenges in areas like scalability, capacity planning, reliable communications, and vehicle routing, while collaborating with software engineers and product managers both on and off the car. 

In this role you’ll:

• Implement and scale the back-end infrastructure for Waymo’s ride-hailing services. This collection of systems manages trip requests; calculates pickup and ride times; matches right vehicles to riders; provides APIs to client apps and other services.
• Develop expertise in and make use of various Google technologies, like Borg, Spanner, Flume, and custom-built systems for our specific problems.
• Design and implement software for autonomous vehicles to handle passenger interactions, communications with hailing and routing services, and improve user’s riding experience.

At a minimum we’d like you to have:

• Working towards a BS/MS in Computer Science or related technical field or equivalent practical experience
• Ability to collaborate within and across teams

It’s preferred if you have:

• Experience working on backend systems or software infrastructure
• Interest in distributed systems