# Research Scientist, Robot Foundation Models **Company**: Wayve **Location**: Sunnyvale, California **Work arrangement**: hybrid **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: $370,040 - $512,710 **Category**: Research **Industry**: Technology **Apply**: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/wayve/4c7cbff2-db7a-4127-9eee-7dae0627afea?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_c2c306cc-2be ## 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 join the Multi-Embodiment Generalist Agent (MEGA) team within Wayve Science as a founding member, building foundation models for general-purpose robots beyond self-driving vehicles. Your day-to-day work may span vision-language-action models, world and action models, multimodal and omni models, video generation, reinforcement learning, imitation learning and behavioral cloning. Key responsibilities: - Lead research into architectures, data and learning approaches for robot foundation models. - Design, implement and evaluate models such as VLAs, WAMs, omni-modal models, video models and related foundation-model architectures for robotics. - Explore and develop learning approaches including reinforcement learning, behavioural cloning and other methods relevant to robot policy development. - Synthesize, curate and filter large-scale video datasets for model training and evaluation. - Build and use scalable distributed training pipelines and infrastructure for large models and large datasets. - Influence and/or own technical decisions around robot policy development, data strategy and model design. - Collaborate closely with scientists, engineers and robotics teams to connect research progress to real-world robot performance. - Communicate research clearly internally and, where appropriate, contribute to external publications and Wayve’s scientific presence. Requirements: - Deep experience in machine learning, with a focus on one or more of: vision-language models, video models, robot policies, or foundation models for robotics or embodied AI. - Experience with scalable training, such as multi-node training, large datasets and/or large model training. - Strong research track record, including publications in top-tier venues such as ICRA, CoRL, CVPR, NeurIPS, ICML or ICLR. - Strong coding skills and hands-on experience with modern machine learning frameworks. - Ability to design and drive an independent research agenda while collaborating closely with engineering and robotics teams. - Experience translating research ideas into working systems, experiments or deployed capabilities. - Strong communication skills and the ability to influence technical direction across teams. Benefits: - Salaries benchmarked against the market annually - Meaningful equity, sharing in the ownership and long-term success of Wayve - Relocation support and visa sponsorship where applicable - Hybrid working, core hours and the chance to work hands-on in vehicle workshops and labs - Learning and development budgets with support for training, conferences and growth - Comprehensive benefits including health insurance, dental, enhanced maternity and paternity leave, retirement or pension where applicable, access to therapists, wellbeing partnerships, team socials and more ## Skills ### Required - machine learning - vision-language models - video models - robot policies - foundation models - reinforcement learning - behavioural cloning --- Source: [Apply at jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/wayve/4c7cbff2-db7a-4127-9eee-7dae0627afea?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)