Job brief: 2027 Summer Intern, Machine Learning, MS/PhD, Simulation Realism (World Model)

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• First seen by JoRoute 2026-11-07 (today); last confirmed on the board 2026-11-07.
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What the listing says · Employer's own words, not checked

• Pay: $70 an hour
• Job type: Not stated
• Where: Mountain View, California, United States · Mountain View (US-MTV-EMF680)
• Posted: 2026-11-06

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Level: Internship. The title says "Intern".

Must have

• Hourly Masters Pay

Conditions

• Implement, train, and evaluate generative models (such as diffusion models, flow matching, or autoregressive transformers) for video and physical world simulation.
• Investigate conditioning, fine-tuning, or distillation methods to improve temporal consistency, physical realism, and inference speed for closed-loop simulation.
• Exposure to 3D computer vision, multi-view geometry, physical/geometric priors, or multimodal sensor data (Camera, LiDAR, Radar).
• Note: This will be a hybrid onsite internship position.

Main duties

• Implement, train, and evaluate generative models (such as diffusion models, flow matching, or autoregressive transformers) for video and physical world simul…
• Experiment with unified 3D/4D and spatiotemporal representations that generalize across diverse scenes, vehicle platforms, and sensor modalities.
• Investigate conditioning, fine-tuning, or distillation methods to improve temporal consistency, physical realism, and inference speed for closed-loop simulat…
• Partner with mentors and researchers across Waymo and frontier AI labs at Google to adapt foundation world models and translate research prototypes into Waym…
• Currently pursuing an MS or PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Robotics, or a related field.

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