Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Vision Models
Wayve · Sunnyvale, California USA
Roboticsremotesenior$312k–$389k
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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