Summary
About this role
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.
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.
Waymo interns partner with leaders in the industry on projects that create significant 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:
- 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.
You have:
- Working towards a BS/MS in Computer Science or related technical field or equivalent practical experience
- Collaborate with different teams
We prefer:
- Experience working on backend systems or software infrastructure
- Interest in distributed systems
Other facts
About Waymo
On the journey to be the world's most trusted driver. With the Waymo Driver, we can improve mobility while saving thousands of lives. Download the Waymo One app and ride today.
Waymo reaches out to candidates from official channels only (e.g. directly from @waymo.com email addresses, or through our recruiters or sourcers who are noted as such on LinkedIn). We do not contact candidates about career opportunities through instant messaging apps like Telegram, email addresses from domains other than waymo.com (such as Gmail addresses), direct messages on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram, or text messages. Visit waymo.com to check out our official job listings.
What you'll do
- Interns will implement and scale the back-end infrastructure for Waymo's ride-hailing services and develop software for autonomous vehicles. They will work on systems that manage trip requests, calculate ride times, and improve user experience.
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