Staff Robotics Engineer
Wayve · Sunnyvale, California USA
Roboticsonsitestaff$276k–$294k
At a glance
Highlights
- Build online calibration for a growing autonomous vehicle fleet.
- Turn estimation methods into reliable, observable on-vehicle runtime components.
- Improve fleet observability across nominal and failure scenarios.
What they offer
- Salaries benchmarked against the market annually
- Meaningful equity, sharing in ownership and long-term success
- Relocation support and visa sponsorship where applicable
- Hybrid working with core hours and hands-on workshop and lab work
- Learning and development budgets for training and conferences
- Comprehensive benefits including health insurance, dental, parental leave and pension
Ideal candidate
A robotics engineer who thrives on ownership and production-hardened systems, passionate about autonomy and vehicle safety. You enjoy turning complex estimation ideas into dependable fleet-scale software through cross-functional collaboration.
Requirements
- Strong practical expertise in sensor calibration, state estimation, or closely related robotics domain
- Strong understanding of filtering and estimation methods including Kalman filters, Bayesian estimation and factor-graph optimisation
- Strong modern C++ software-engineering skills and proficiency in Python for prototyping and tooling
- Experience productionising algorithm-heavy robotics software for vehicles, robots, drones, aerospace or comparable edge platforms
- Experience with asynchronous, high-throughput sensor data and hardware-accelerated pipelines
- Strong software architecture, API design, testing, debugging and performance-profiling skills with end-to-end ownership
- remote policy
- Hybrid working with core hours and hands-on work in vehicle workshops and labs
- visa sponsorship
- Visa sponsorship and relocation support available where applicable
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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