Wayve
Staff Machine Learning Engineer, AV Core
Sunnyvale, California USA · Staff+ · Full-time
Sponsorship not specified$336k-$370kDetected 60 days ago
PythonC++Machine LearningPyTorchNLPRoboticsResearchLeadershipMentoring
About the role
- Align priorities and learn from the organisation - with AV Core, Evaluation, and Product Engineering on roadmaps and failure modes; from fleet, simulation, and product feedback; and through mentoring others on the team.
Responsibilities
- Drive Core Model Safety roadmap themes owning the full lifecycle from research to offline/online experiments to technology transfer.
- Train and deploy end-to-end AV 2.0 models on our global fleet, using large-scale, diverse data to validate capabilities and improve generalisation across vehicles, markets, and driving conditions.
- Maintain awareness of the wider business context - division and company priorities, near-term product programmes, and how Core Model Safety work enables them.
- 5+ years in ML engineering, including pathfinding in ambiguous problems - from scoping and evals to establishing a direction (and knowledge transfer) for others to build on.
Requirements
- Experience with redundant or fallback architectures, safety-critical systems.
Compensation
- The reasonably estimated salary for this role ranges from $336,400 to $370,300, plus a competitive equity package.
Benefits
- Hands-on experience with transformer-based and multimodal architectures, including vision-language models (VLM), vision-language-action models (VLA), or equivalent.
- Experience in 3D scene understanding and representation learning for geometric and semantic perception, large-scale semantic enrichments.
- Build high-value open-loop and closed-loop evaluations for core capabilities and representation learning.
- In order to set you up for success as a Staff Machine Learning Engineer at Wayve, we're looking for the following skills and experience.
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