Wayve
Principal Engineer, Model Development Platform
Sunnyvale, California USA · Principal · Full-time
Sponsorship not specified$296k-$335kDetected 33 days ago
ReactFastAPIFlaskDistributed SystemsFull-Stack DevelopmentAlgorithmsKubernetesAPI DevelopmentMachine LearningSparkAirflowData EngineeringMLOpsAI OrchestrationA/B TestingDesign SystemsRoboticsResearchLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationProblem SolvingMentoring
About the role
- As Principal Engineer for the Model Development Platform, you'll own the end-to-end architecture behind Wayve's AI model lifecycle, from data ingestion and training to experiment scheduling and on-road testing. Working at the intersection of AI research, large-scale distributed systems, and robotic operations, you'll keep the platform reliable, scalable,
- and coherent so our researchers and engineers can iterate fast and deploy autonomous driving models safely.
Responsibilities
- Design and evolve the platform's overall architecture for reliability, observability, and scalability.
- Set performance, latency, and availability targets, and drive the engineering standards to meet them.
- Dive into the hardest challenges across subteams, lead architectural reviews, and propose pragmatic solutions that balance innovation with operational simplicity.
- Architect pipelines that ingest, transform, and enrich petabytes of fleet sensor data, and drive efficient compute use across GPU, CPU, cloud, and edge for both prototyping and large-scale training.
- Partner with Product, Research, and Operations to align architecture with user needs and co-own the platform's long-term roadmap.
- Architectural Depth & Breadth - Proven ability to design systems spanning web platforms, ML pipelines, and large-scale compute orchestration (e.g., Spark, Ray, Kubernetes, Airflow, MLflow).
- Reliability and performance - Experience driving platform reliability improvements, defining SLAs/SLOs, and building self-healing and observable systems that operate at "four nines" availability or better.
- Hands-On Systems Design - Deep understanding of distributed computing, workflow orchestration, data modeling, and API design, with the ability to write and review production-quality code.
Requirements
- Full-Stack Fluency - Experience with modern web frameworks (e.g., React, Flask, FastAPI) and how they integrate into backend systems.
Compensation
- This role is a full-time role based in Sunnyvale, CA (hybrid) and the reasonably estimated salary for this role ranges from $295,500 to $335,300, plus a competitive equity package.
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