Wayve
Systems Engineer, AI Validation
Sunnyvale, California USA · Senior · Full-time
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About the role
- Analyze test results and report findings to Release and Autonomy Engineering stakeholders.
- Identify data, simulation, and evaluation team dependencies to enable timely, scalable, and automated validation execution.
- Your contributions will enable the successful integration of the AI Driver across a range of autonomy products.
Responsibilities
- Develop and implement a comprehensive validation strategy across test modalities for multiple autonomy products.
- Define and implement general purpose metrics for validating on-road and simulated driving behavior.
- Develop acceptance criteria through collaboration with Product, Safety, and AV Engineering teams.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience working on automated driving, robotics, or related product.
- Proficiency in Python to implement metrics and work with evaluation codebase.
- Experience with both simulated and and physical testing environments for autonomous systems.
- Experience with modern AI tools and agentic workflows
Compensation
- This is a full-time role based in our office in Sunnyvale and the reasonably estimated salary for this role ranges from $209,700 to $266,800 plus a competitive equity package.
Benefits
- Define test coverage requirements and build comprehensive test suites.
Company info
- This critical work will help the Wayve AI Driver reach millions of customers globally.
- ABOUT YOU In order to set you up for success as a Systems Engineer (Senior / Staff), AI Validation at Wayve, we're looking for the following skills and experience.
- At Wayve we want the best of all worlds so we operate a hybrid working policy that combines time together in our offices and workshops to fuel innovation, culture, relationships and learning, and time spent working from home.
- In order to set you up for success as a Systems Engineer (Senior / Staff), AI Validation at Wayve, we're looking for the following skills and experience.
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