Wayve
Research Scientist, Wayve Labs
Sunnyvale, California USA · Mid · Full-time
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About the role
- You'll work at the intersection of machine learning, simulation, robotics, and real-world deployment, contributing to core innovations that push the boundaries of embodied AI.
- Situated within Wayve, we are a high-conviction research team with the strategic patience and backing to prioritise multi-year breakthroughs over incremental gains.
- We are looking for highly motivated individuals with expertise and passion to push the frontier of embodied
Responsibilities
- Develop Geometric Foundation Models for 3D spatial understanding in dynamic, real-world environments.
- Relocation support with visa sponsorship
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience developing and deploying ML systems in real-world or production settings
Compensation
- Attractive compensation with salary and equity
Benefits
- Attractive compensation with salary and equity
- Bespoke learning and development opportunities
- Flexible working hours - we trust you to do your job well, at times that suit you and your time
- Advance Reinforcement Learning and Reward Modeling, building scalable and safe learning frameworks across real and synthetic data
- Enable Cross-Embodiment Robotics, leveraging the power of multimodal foundation models to accelerate robotic learning on diverse platforms.
- PhD, Master's degree, or equivalent experience in Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Robotics, or a related field
- Reinforcement learning (e.g., offline RL, RLHF, reward modeling)
- Benefits such as an onsite chef, workplace nursery scheme, private health insurance, therapy, daily yoga, onsite bar, large social budgets, unlimited L&D requests, enhanced parental leave, and more!
- This is a full-time role based in our office in Sunnyvale based in Sunnyvale, CA (hybrid) and the reasonably estimated salary for this role ranges from $230,000 to $380,000, plus a competitive equity package.
Company info
- We are looking for highly motivated individuals with expertise and passion to push the frontier of embodied AI, including (but not limited to) the following areas:
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- Relocation support with visa sponsorship
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