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Staff / Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Reinforcement Learning

Wayve · Sunnyvale, California USA

Roboticsremotesenior, staff
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Own RL roadmap turning driving data into robust closed-loop behavior.
  • Lead learned emergency model for evasive steering and emergency braking.
  • Advance post-behavior-cloning optimization with offline and off-policy RL.

What they offer

  • Salaries benchmarked against the market annually
  • Meaningful equity
  • Relocation support and visa sponsorship where applicable
  • Hybrid working with core hours and hands-on workshop work
  • Learning and development budgets for training and conferences
  • Comprehensive health, dental, parental leave and pension benefits

Ideal candidate

Senior RL researcher-engineer who owns ambiguous problems end-to-end, pairs rigorous experimentation with clear collaboration, and wants to improve real-world driving safety.

Requirements

  • Strong track record developing and validating RL or sequential decision-making methods on complex high-dimensional problems
  • Deep understanding of modern RL fundamentals including policy/value learning, off-policy learning and failure modes
  • Hands-on experience with behaviour cloning, RL or related methods
  • Proficient in Python and PyTorch with reliable ML training and evaluation systems
  • Excellent experimental judgement turning ambiguous behavior problems into hypotheses and ablations
  • Senior-level ownership and collaboration across research and engineering
remote policy
hybrid working with core hours
visa sponsorship
visa sponsorship 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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