Wayve
Principal Engineer, Model Development Platform
Sunnyvale, California USA · Principal · Full-time
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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
- 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.
Skills
- System architecture & reliability
- Cross-domain technical leadership
- Hands-on problem solving
- Experimentation & scheduling systems
- Data & compute infrastructure
- Strategic collaboration
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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