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Staff ML Performance Engineer, Performance Architecture

Wayve · Sunnyvale, California USA

Roboticsremotestaff$370k–$395k
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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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