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Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Vision Models

Wayve · Sunnyvale, California USA

Roboticsremotesenior$312k–$389k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Build offline scene-understanding models that measure real-world driving performance.
  • Create fleet-scale evidence used in validation pipelines and safety cases.
  • Mine rare events and assess driving behaviour across geographies and conditions.

What they offer

  • Salaries benchmarked against the market annually
  • Meaningful equity
  • Relocation support and visa sponsorship where applicable
  • Hybrid working with access to vehicle workshops and labs
  • Learning and development support
  • Comprehensive health, family, retirement and wellbeing benefits

Ideal candidate

Ownership-driven ML engineer energized by ambiguous problems and real-world autonomy. You care about rigorous evidence, fleet-scale impact, and mentoring others while shaping how safe driving is measured.

Requirements

  • 4+ years in ML engineering with deep-learning models trained and shipped to production
  • Hands-on experience with modern computer vision, transformer, multimodal or VLM architectures
  • Experience adapting or fine-tuning large pretrained or foundation models
  • Proficient in Python and PyTorch or similar framework with large-scale training
  • Ability to take ambiguous modelling problems from scoping to measurable solution
remote policy
Hybrid model combining in-person collaboration with remote focus time
visa sponsorship
Visa sponsorship available where applicable
hiring process
Recruiter screen (25 min) → Competency interview with hiring manager (60 min) → Deep-dive technical interviews in Applied ML, System Design and Programming (3 hours) → Final mission and values alignment interview (60 min)

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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