Applied Scientist / Machine Learning Engineer
Wayve · Sunnyvale, California USA
Roboticsremote$312k–$420k
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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