Staff ML Performance Engineer, Performance Architecture
Wayve · Sunnyvale, California USA
Roboticsremotestaff$370k–$395k
At a glance
Highlights
- Make AI workloads faster to unlock new autonomous driving capability.
- Profile training and cloud inference to find and deliver optimizations.
- Build benchmarking tools to track gains and catch regressions.
What they offer
- Meaningful equity
- Relocation support
- Hybrid working with core hours
- Learning and development budgets
- Health insurance, dental and wellbeing support
- Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
- Retirement or pension where applicable
Ideal candidate
A seasoned performance-minded engineer with 10+ years optimizing large-scale ML systems who loves digging into bottlenecks, sharing benchmarks openly, and embedding performance into research culture.
Requirements
- 10+ years of industry experience driving performance engineering across ML systems, GPU compute infrastructure, distributed platforms or similar
- Optimised large-scale workloads on GPU compute clusters, for training, inference or both
- Written, reported and tracked performance benchmarks in an open and accessible way
- Writes high quality, well-structured and tested Python code
- BS or MS in Machine Learning, Computer Science, Engineering or related technical discipline, or equivalent experience
- remote policy
- hybrid
- visa sponsorship
- Visa sponsorship available
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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