Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Robotics
Wayve · Sunnyvale, California USA
Roboticsremotestaff$370k–$420k
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
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