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Applied Scientist / Machine Learning Engineer

Wayve · Sunnyvale, California USA

Roboticsremote$312k–$420k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Build embodied intelligence that moves real vehicles safely at scale.
  • Turn petabyte-scale fleet data into training sets for AI Driver.
  • Surface rare safety-critical scenarios to guide next model iteration.

What they offer

  • Salaries benchmarked against the market annually
  • Meaningful equity
  • Relocation support
  • Hybrid working and access to vehicle workshops and labs
  • Learning and development support
  • Comprehensive health, family, retirement and wellbeing benefits

Ideal candidate

ML-minded engineer who loves turning applied research into production and reasoning about data quality and coverage. Thrives in ambiguous, cross-functional work and is passionate about safe autonomy.

Requirements

  • Strong machine-learning and software-engineering fundamentals with ability to take applied research into production
  • Proficient in Python and a modern deep-learning framework and comfortable with SQL or large-scale data tools
  • Experience with data curation, foundation models, large-scale data wrangling, computer vision, or model evaluation
  • Can reason about sampling, class imbalance, label quality, dataset coverage, and experimental design
  • Enjoy ambiguous, cross-functional problems and communicate technical trade-offs clearly
remote policy
Hybrid working model combining in-person collaboration with remote focus time
visa sponsorship
Visa sponsorship where applicable
hiring process
Initial recruiter screen (25 min), competency interview (60 min), deep-dive interviews covering programming, system design, ML breadth and PyTorch debugging (3-4 hours), final mission, values and level alignment interview

Lab profile

About Wayve

London-based AI lab building embodied driving intelligence for autonomous vehicles.

What they build

  • Wayve Driver embodied AI driving software
  • GAIA generative world models for driving
  • LINGO language-grounded driving AI

Known for

  • End-to-end embodied AI for driving
  • Camera-first, mapless autonomy approach
  • Large-scale real-world learning and simulation

Key facts

  • Founded in 2017
  • Headquartered in London, UK
  • Backed by SoftBank Group, NVIDIA and Microsoft
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