Wayve
Applied Scientist / Machine Learning Engineer
Sunnyvale · Full-time
Sponsorship not specified$312k-$370kDetected 22 days ago
PythonMachine LearningPyTorchSparkComputer VisionLLMsRoboticsResearch
About the role
- This role sits in the AI Platform organisation, on the data flywheel that powers every model we ship.
- As deployment scales, the bottleneck is shifting from raw model capacity to the quality and intelligence of the data engine and the rigour of how we measure progress.
- There are three areas we are hiring into, and you can go deep in any one of them:
Responsibilities
- Build high-quality enrichments that teams across the company depend on, through (semi-)automated enrichment and labeling pipelines and data quality at scale.
- Build and fine-tune large-scale pretrained models, and run smaller-scale experiments to test and derisk ideas before committing serious compute.
- Help build the best embodied VLM / VLA in the world for driving (the LINGO line): push multimodal perception, reasoning, language, and action.
Requirements
- Strong ML and software fundamentals, and a track record of taking ML from research into production systems that run at scale.
- Experience with large-scale data and/or large neural networks, and the judgment to know which experiments and which data actually matter.
Compensation
- The reasonably estimated salary for this role ranges from $311,850 to $370,000, plus a competitive equity package.
Benefits
- Mine world-scale fleet data for rare, long-tail, and safety-critical events using active learning, smart sampling, and embedding-based retrieval and dedup.
- Design rigorous offline and closed-loop evaluation: metrics and benchmarks that correlate with real on-road behaviour and safety, with deliberate coverage of rare and safety-critical scenarios.
- Contribute across the wider foundation-model stack as the work demands: generative world models (GAIA), policy learning, reinforcement learning, and reward modeling.
- A Masters with around 6 or more years of relevant experience, or a PhD with 2 or more years, in computer science, machine learning, robotics, mathematics, or a related field (required).
Company info
- Founded in 2017, Wayve is the leading developer of Embodied AI technology. Our advanced AI software and foundation models enable vehicles to perceive, understand, and navigate any complex environment, enhancing the usability and safety of automated driving systems.
- Our vision is to create autonomy that propels the world forward. Our intelligent, mapless, and hardware-agnostic AI products are designed for automakers, accelerating the transition from assisted to automated driving.
- In our fast-paced environment big problems ignite us-we embrace uncertainty, leaning into complex challenges to unlock groundbreaking solutions. We aim high and stay humble in our pursuit of excellence, constantly learning and evolving as we pave the way for a smarter, safer future.
- At Wayve, your contributions matter. We value diversity, embrace new perspectives, and foster an inclusive work environment
- We value diversity, embrace new perspectives, and foster an inclusive work environment; we back each other to deliver impact.
- Make Wayve the experience that defines your career!
- Wayve is building embodied AI for the physical world, starting with autonomous driving.
- Instead of the hand-engineered, modular stacks that defined the first era of self-driving, we pioneered AV2.0: a single, end-to-end neural network that learns to drive from raw sensor data and generalises to new cities, vehicles, and conditions.
- Our foundation models, the GAIA family of generative world models and the LINGO family of vision-language-action models, let vehicles perceive, reason, and act in the open world.
- Founded in 2017, Wayve is the leading developer of Embodied AI technology.
- Our advanced AI software and foundation models enable vehicles to perceive, understand, and navigate any complex environment, enhancing the usability and safety of automated driving systems.
- Our vision is to create autonomy that propels the world forward.
- Our intelligent, mapless, and hardware-agnostic AI products are designed for automakers, accelerating the transition from assisted to automated driving.
- In our fast-paced environment big problems ignite us-we embrace uncertainty, leaning into complex challenges to unlock groundbreaking solutions.
Visa & Work Authorization
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