Staff Robotics Engineer, Localization
Wayve · Sunnyvale, California USA · London, United Kingdom
Roboticsremotestaff$276k–$294k
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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