Skip to content
← Wayve

Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Robotics

Wayve · Sunnyvale, California USA

Roboticsremotestaff$370k–$420k
Apply on the lab’s site ↗

At a glance

Highlights

  • Build embodied intelligence that moves real vehicles safely at scale.
  • Improve zero-shot transfer across diverse vehicle platforms and sensors.
  • Own the Generalization Benchmark used in major OEM programs.

What they offer

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

Ideal candidate

A hands-on, systems-thinking roboticist who loves digging into real-world driving failures and owning ambiguous problems end-to-end to help safe autonomy scale across vehicles.

Requirements

  • Several years of experience building and shipping ML systems in PyTorch and Python, including training at scale and rigorous evaluation
  • Strong robotics or automotive background in state estimation, sensor fusion, calibration, vehicle dynamics, or controls
  • Systems perspective to trace problems through sensors, data, models, and actuation
  • Experience working with real-world, multi-sensor driving or robot data
  • Clear cross-team communication and ownership of ambiguous problems end-to-end
remote policy
Hybrid working with access to vehicle workshops and labs
visa sponsorship
Visa sponsorship and relocation support where applicable
hiring process
Hiring-manager discussion (45 minutes), deep-dive technical interviews (approximately 4 hours total), and final mission and values alignment interview (1 hour).

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
More about Wayve →
Apply on the lab’s site ↗

Posted · Last seen