Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Search & Index
Wayve · Sunnyvale, California USA
RoboticsremoteSenior$312k–$351k
At a glance
Highlights
- Build search indexing platform for hundreds of thousands of hours of driving data.
- Scale retrieval system beyond 10B vectors for training and research.
- First hire in Search & Indexing team shaping build-vs-buy decisions.
What they offer
- Meaningful equity sharing in long-term success
- Relocation support
- Learning and development budgets for training and conferences
- Comprehensive health, dental and wellbeing benefits
Ideal candidate
A builder who thrives in ambiguity and owns 0-to-1 systems end-to-end. You care about making massive driving data discoverable and enjoy working across infra, ML and data teams.
Requirements
- 7+ years in backend, infrastructure or ML systems building production systems
- Hands-on experience with vector databases or ANN technologies
- Understand multimodal embeddings and evaluated search quality
- Strong coding in Python or another systems language
- Built search services, APIs and large-scale ingestion and indexing pipelines
- Delivered 0-to-1 systems in ambiguous problem spaces
- remote policy
- Hybrid
- visa sponsorship
- Visa sponsorship available 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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