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Staff Robotics Engineer

Wayve · Sunnyvale, California USA

Roboticsonsitestaff$276k–$294k
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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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