Data Engineer, Application Software
Wayve · Tokyo, Japan
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At a glance
Highlights
- Design pipelines turning vast vehicle data into model-ready datasets.
- Curate real-world and synthetic data to drive scenario diversity.
- Support core driving, personalisation, comfort and collaboration features.
Ideal candidate
A collaborative data engineer passionate about autonomous driving who thrives in fast-moving, ownership-driven environments and enjoys turning messy real-world vehicle data into reliable foundations for ML.
Requirements
- Proven experience building and operating scalable data pipelines or distributed data processing systems in production environments.
- Strong software engineering skills in Python, with a solid foundation in maintainable, reliable, and well-tested software development practices.
- Proficient in SQL and PySpark, with experience using warehouse/OLAP concepts, window functions, and Spark for distributed data processing.
- Experience with modern data pipeline architectures, including workflow orchestration and DAG-based systems such as Airflow, Flyte, Ray, or similar.
- Solid understanding of robotics and automated driving data concepts, including sensor characteristics, timestamping and clock synchronisation, coordinate transformations, calibration, and ego-motion signals such as GNSS/IMU and vehicle odometry.
- Understanding of machine learning development workflows, including training data generation, evaluation datasets, scenario mining, and model iteration.
- Excellent communication and collaborative skills, capable of working effectively with interdisciplinary teams.
- Prior work in calibration, perception, imitation learning, or trajectory prediction.
- Experience with third-party dataset ingestion and transformation.
- Familiarity with automated driving data and scenario taxonomies, including ODD definitions, manoeuvre and behavior labels, scene classification, event tagging, semantic understanding.
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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