Principal Research Scientist – Multimodal Reasoning & Embodied AI
Wayve · Sunnyvale, California USA · London, United Kingdom
Roboticsremoteprincipal$407k–$460k
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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