Data Science Intern - PhD

Required

• Proven track record of setting technical vision, driving multi-quarter roadmaps, and delivering impactful data projects as a technical lead for senior engineering teams, with demonstrated ability to influence across organizational boundaries.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical designs, trade-offs, and strategies to diverse stakeholders, including senior leadership and partner engineering, data scientists, and product teams.
• Extensive experience architecting, building, and operating complex, large-scale distributed data systems (e.g., data lakes, lakehouse, data mesh, streaming platforms, query engines).
• Deep expertise in designing and implementing data governance principles, including metadata systems, data lineage, data quality frameworks, and data discoverability solutions at scale.
• Strong experience in designing and evolving data-centric APIs, schemas, and data contracts to ensure system interoperability, portability, and long-term maintainability.
• Expertise in data pipeline and query engine development and proficiencies in writing both SQL and one of C++/Java/Python code language.
• Familiarity with data from autonomous vehicle operations, logistics, or ride-hailing business domains.
• Experience with Google's data infrastructure and tools such as F1 Query, Napa, Flume, Plx, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP) data services such as BigQuery, Cloud Dataflow, etc.
• The expected base salary range for this full-time position across US locations is listed below. Actual starting pay will be based on job-related factors, including exact work location, experience, relevant training and education, and skill level. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the role location or, if the role can be performed remote, the specific salary range for your preferred location, during the hiring process.
• Waymo employees are also eligible to participate in Waymo’s discretionary annual bonus program, equity incentive plan, and generous Company benefits program, subject to eligibility requirements.
• $281,000—$356,000 USD