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Principal Research Scientist – Multimodal Reasoning & Embodied AI

Wayve · Sunnyvale, California USA · London, United Kingdom

Roboticsremoteprincipal$407k–$460k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Build embodied intelligence that moves real vehicles safely in the world.
  • Help driving agents generalise to new environments and rare situations.
  • Turn reasoning advances into better behaviour in challenging driving scenarios.

What they offer

  • Salaries benchmarked against the market annually
  • Meaningful equity, sharing in ownership and long-term success
  • Relocation support and visa sponsorship where applicable
  • Hybrid working with core hours and hands-on work in workshops and labs
  • Learning and development budgets for training and conferences
  • Comprehensive benefits including health insurance, dental and pension

Ideal candidate

A hands-on research leader with a strong deep-learning publication record who loves turning ambitious ideas into rigorous evidence. You mentor others and want ownership in shaping embodied AI for real vehicles.

Requirements

  • Strong research track record in deep learning, particularly in LLMs, VLMs, VLAs, multimodal foundation models or embodied AI
  • Deep technical understanding of modern foundation model architectures, transformer-based models, multimodal representation learning and generative modelling
  • Hands-on experience developing, training, fine-tuning or post-training large-scale models
remote policy
hybrid
visa sponsorship
Visa sponsorship where applicable

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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