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Applied Scientist / Machine Learning Engineer

Wayve Sunnyvale, California Hybrid senior full-time

Salary

$311,850 - $419,760 per year

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Description

We build the embodied intelligence that moves real vehicles safely, and the ecosystem a billion machines will run on in the future.

You will be part of Wayve's engineering teams, building the AI, robotics, simulation, data, and systems foundations needed to deploy a generalisable AI Driver safely and at scale.

Your day-to-day responsibilities will include:

  • Building scalable methods to discover rare, high-value, and safety-critical scenarios in fleet data.
  • Using embeddings, active learning, similarity search, model-assisted mining, and smart sampling to improve dataset coverage.
  • Designing pipelines for automated enrichment, labelling, deduplication, and data-quality monitoring.
  • Running experiments to understand which data mixtures and curation strategies improve model performance.
  • Collaborating with foundation-model, evaluation, simulation, and infrastructure teams to move ideas into production.
  • Building benchmarks and slice analyses that expose model blind spots and guide the next data and modelling iteration.

You will be working on:

  • Petabyte-scale real-world driving and simulation datasets.
  • Data engines and retrieval systems using Python, SQL, Spark, embeddings, and multimodal models.
  • Training-data strategy for embodied vision-language and driving models.
  • Automated enrichment, active learning, and model-assisted labelling.
  • Evaluation datasets that connect data decisions to real-world driving outcomes.

Requirements:

  • Strong machine-learning and software-engineering fundamentals.
  • Proficiency in Python and a modern deep-learning framework.
  • Comfortable with SQL or large-scale data tools.
  • Experience with data curation, foundation models, large-scale data wrangling, computer vision, or model evaluation.
  • Ability to reason about sampling, class imbalance, label quality, dataset coverage, and experimental design.

Nice to have:

  • Experience with autonomous driving, robotics, VLMs, active learning, similarity search, Spark, or distributed training.

Benefits:

  • Salaries benchmarked against the market annually.
  • Meaningful equity.
  • Relocation support and visa sponsorship where applicable.
  • Hybrid working and access to vehicle workshops and labs.
  • Learning and development support.
  • Comprehensive location-dependent health, family, retirement, and wellbeing benefits.

Skills

Required

  • Python
  • deep-learning framework
  • SQL
  • large-scale data tools
  • data curation
  • foundation models
  • computer vision
  • model evaluation

Nice to have

  • autonomous driving
  • robotics
  • VLMs
  • active learning
  • similarity search
  • Spark
  • distributed training

Ready to apply?

You apply with the employer directly. Their original posting is here: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/wayve/f3f61d23-6149-4391-8caa-3b92d809338b

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