Senior / Staff Systems Engineer, AI Validation
Wayve · Sunnyvale, California USA
Roboticsremotesenior$210k–$311k
At a glance
Highlights
- Own end-to-end validation for driving competencies like intersections.
- Build automated test frameworks for end-to-end learned driving systems.
- Provide evidence that directly influences AV release decisions globally.
What they offer
- Market-benchmarked salaries reviewed 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
Systems thinker passionate about autonomous driving safety who turns ambiguous requirements into practical automated tests and thrives with ownership in a fast-evolving environment.
Requirements
- Hands-on experience with behaviour validation in autonomous driving, robotics or related product domain
- Experience beyond basic lane-keeping or conventional ADAS, with understanding of L2+, L3 or L4 validation
- Professional Python skills with experience building metrics, tests or evaluation tooling
- Systems thinker able to turn ambiguous requirements into practical automated tests
- Able to adapt to evolving simulation paradigms and communicate findings clearly
- remote policy
- Hybrid working model combining in-person collaboration with remote focus time
- visa sponsorship
- Visa sponsorship available where applicable
- hiring process
- Initial recruiter screen (25 min), hiring manager screen (45 min), deep-dive interviews on systems and domain expertise (3-4 hours), final mission and values 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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