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Staff Robotics Engineer, Localization

Wayve · Sunnyvale, California USA · London, United Kingdom

Roboticsremotestaff$276k–$294k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Define and evolve onboard localisation architecture for real vehicles.
  • Take localisation from prototyping through production deployment onboard.
  • Build rigorous validation with datasets across diverse environments.

What they offer

  • Salaries benchmarked against the market annually
  • Meaningful equity sharing in 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 health, dental, parental leave, pension, wellbeing and socials

Ideal candidate

Senior roboticist with production state-estimation experience who thrives on ownership and wants to shape real-world autonomy from architecture to onboard deployment in an unstructured, fast-moving environment.

Requirements

  • Deep practical expertise in localisation, state estimation or sensor fusion combining GNSS, IMU and wheel-odometry measurements
  • Strong understanding of filtering-based estimation including EKF/UKF and nonlinear optimisation such as factor graphs
  • Experience developing and operating localisation systems in production robotics, autonomous vehicles or real-time systems
  • Strong modern C++ engineering skills and Python for prototyping, analysis, validation and test tooling
  • Experience designing rigorous validation and benchmarking including accuracy metrics, uncertainty, ground-truth and regression testing
  • Hands-on technical leadership defining architecture, influencing roadmaps, mentoring and cross-team collaboration
  • Experience incorporating camera, LiDAR or RADAR measurements including visual, LiDAR or RADAR odometry
  • Hands-on experience with GTSAM, Ceres or g2o
remote policy
hybrid
visa sponsorship
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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