Staff / Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Reinforcement Learning
Wayve · Sunnyvale, California USA
Roboticsremotesenior, staff
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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