Wayve
Robotics · AV foundation models
- HQ
- London, GB
- Founded
- 2017
- Website
- wayve.ai
Wayve currently has 32 active AI-related job listings. The majority of these roles, 59%, are in the application stage. Engineering is the dominant function, with 30 roles listed. The company is hiring in the United States and the United Kingdom. Frequent tech tags include embodied_ai, model_serving, and inference_infra, suggesting a focus on deploying and managing AI models for real-world applications. Wayve has seen a significant increase in new AI roles over the last 30 days, with 15 new positions posted, a 114% increase compared to the previous 30-day period.
Currently tracking 29 active AI roles, down 61% versus the prior 4 weeks. Primary focus: Ship · Engineering. Salary range $284k–$466k (avg $363k).
Wayve currently has 46 active AI-related roles in our index. The most common open titles are: ADAS Feature Engineer (2), Machine Learning Engineer, App SW (2), Machine Learning Engineering Manager, App SW (2), System Architect - Robotaxi (2), Vehicle Safety Operator (2). Most positions are in Engineering and Product.
Wayve's active AI hiring is concentrated in: application (57%), agents (13%), serving infrastructure (13%). These categories follow a seven-stage AI lifecycle: data, pre-training, post-training, serving infrastructure, agents, evaluation, and application.
Wayve is hiring AI talent in: United States (28 roles), United Kingdom (15 roles), Japan (5 roles), Germany (4 roles).
Job postings at Wayve most frequently reference: embodied ai, model serving, evals, inference infra, synthetic data.
In the past 30 days, Wayve has posted 22 new AI-related roles. That is a +47% change versus the prior 30 days (15 → 22).
| Title | Stage | AI score |
|---|---|---|
| Tech Lead, Autonomy Performance - Robotaxi Tech Lead for Autonomy Performance in a Robotaxi program, focusing on defining and owning the performance measurement framework, issue detection, prioritization, and driving improvements across ML models and robot software. This role involves cross-functional leadership and hands-on debugging in Python/C++/SQL to ensure the product meets release readiness and maintains performance over time. | ShipEval Gate | 9 |
| Machine Learning Engineer, App SW Machine Learning Engineer role focused on developing and deploying end-to-end driving models for autonomous vehicles. Responsibilities include improving model performance, building evaluation pipelines, curating data, and influencing architecture and training methodologies. Requires extensive experience shipping deep learning systems to production and expertise in deep learning, Python, and ML frameworks. | ShipData | 9 |
| Director AV Product Engineering Director of Engineering for Product Engineering within the AI Engineering organization, responsible for taking AI model backbones and delivering an autonomous vehicle capability roadmap with production-level quality. This includes data collection, filtering, training, tuning, and debugging production models for deployment to OEM partners. The role requires establishing ML practices, attracting technical leadership, and managing multiple teams covering driving, ADAS, parking, and HMI functionality. Key responsibilities include defining technical vision and strategy, driving an eval-driven culture, and building technical capabilities. | ShipPost-train | 9 |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer, AV Core Staff Machine Learning Engineer on the Core Model Safety team at Wayve, focusing on developing and deploying end-to-end AV 2.0 models for assisted and automated driving. Responsibilities include driving the roadmap, training models on fleet data, building evaluations, and collaborating with research and engineering teams. Requires experience in ML engineering, Python/C++/CUDA, PyTorch, transformer/multimodal architectures (VLM/VLA), and multi-task training. Desirable experience includes AV/robotics, 3D scene understanding, reward modeling, interpretability, and safety-critical systems. | Post-trainServe | 9 |
| Applied Scientist, Wayve Labs Applied Scientist role focused on developing Embodied AI systems for autonomous driving, working on world models, planners, reinforcement learning, representation learning, and multimodal learning. The role involves research at the intersection of ML, simulation, and robotics, with a focus on multi-year breakthroughs. | AgentData | 9 |
| Tech Lead, ML Engineer - AV Product engineering Tech Lead ML Engineer for AV Product Engineering, focusing on navigation workstream for L2+, L3, and robotaxi products. Owns the full lifecycle from model training to deployment in production vehicles. Requires strong ML engineering experience, Python/C++/CUDA proficiency, PyTorch, and experience with transformer/multimodal architectures. | ShipPost-train | 9 |
| Machine Learning Engineer, AV Engineering Machine Learning Engineer at Wayve focused on building and shipping end-to-end driving models for Level 2 to Level 4 autonomous driving systems. The role involves owning the full ML lifecycle from data curation and training to evaluation and on-road validation, with a strong emphasis on product delivery and real-world outcomes. | ShipData | 9 |
| Machine Learning Engineer, App SW Machine Learning Engineer at Wayve, focused on developing and deploying end-to-end driving models for autonomous vehicles. The role involves improving model performance, leading projects on personalized driving, building evaluation pipelines, curating data, and influencing training and deployment strategies. Requires extensive experience shipping deep learning systems to production and expertise in sequential models, control, planning, or perception. | ShipData | 9 |
| Staff ML Performance Engineer (Training Efficiency) Staff ML Performance Engineer focused on optimizing large-scale ML training and inference workloads for Embodied AI technology in autonomous driving systems. The role involves profiling ML jobs, designing and implementing efficiency improvements (parallelism, model compilation, mixed precision), developing observability tools, and creating benchmarking tools to track performance gains. Collaboration with Research teams is key to integrate efficiency improvements and foster a performance optimization culture. | DataServe | 9 |
| Machine Learning Engineer Machine Learning Engineer at Wayve, focused on developing and deploying end-to-end driving models for autonomous vehicles. The role involves leading projects on personalized and collaborative driving, building evaluation pipelines, curating data, and influencing ML system design for production. Requires expertise in deep learning, Python, and production ML systems, with experience in real-time systems or robotics. | ShipData | 9 |
| Register your interest for Wayve in Germany This role is for an AI Engineer at Wayve, a company developing Embodied AI technology for autonomous driving. The role focuses on creating advanced AI software and foundation models that enable vehicles to perceive, understand, and navigate complex environments. The company is expanding to Germany and is seeking interested candidates to register their interest for future opportunities. The role is part of the scaling phase of AI maturity and is focused on shipping AI products. | ShipAgent | 9 |
| Principal Engineer, Model Development Platform Principal Engineer for the Model Development Platform at Wayve, focusing on the end-to-end AI model lifecycle for Embodied AI in autonomous vehicles. The role involves owning the architecture, reliability, scalability, and coherence of the platform, which supports data ingestion, training, experiment scheduling, and on-road testing. It requires deep technical leadership across web applications, distributed compute, ML Ops, data pipelines, and optimization algorithms, enabling researchers and engineers to iterate and deploy models safely and efficiently. | ServeData | 8 |
| Director of Platform Management for Simulation, Evaluation & Validation Director of Platform Management for Simulation, Evaluation & Validation at Wayve, a leading Embodied AI technology developer for autonomous driving. This role focuses on defining the product vision and strategy for platforms used to develop, evaluate, and validate the AI Driver, including simulation, evaluation, synthetic data, and validation workflows. The position requires leading and growing a team of product managers, building excellent developer experiences, and setting quality standards for internal AI platforms. Prior experience in safety-critical AI/ML programs and familiarity with simulation/evaluation tools are desirable. | Eval GateData | 8 |
| Machine Learning Engineering Manager, App SW Machine Learning Engineering Manager to lead a new Application Engineering team focused on localizing and advancing autonomous driving technology for the US market. This role involves building and leading a team, driving full-cycle development of autonomy features, and collaborating with OEM partners. | ShipAgent | 8 |
| Machine Learning Engineering Manager, App SW Machine Learning Engineering Manager to lead a new Application Engineering team focused on localizing and advancing autonomous driving technology for the US market. This role involves building and leading a team, driving full-cycle development of autonomy features, and collaborating with OEM partners. | ShipAgent | 8 |
| Product Manager, Driving Features Product Manager for Wayve's AI Driver product, responsible for owning a work package end-to-end, leading a cross-functional team, setting technical direction, and translating research into a product roadmap. Requires deep AI/ML technical depth and strong product management skills in the autonomous driving domain. | Ship | 8 |
| Staff Cloud SRE – AI/ML Platform & GPU Compute Staff Cloud SRE role focused on building and scaling the reliability of AI cloud platforms, including Model Development Platform and GPU Compute infrastructure for model training and inference. The role involves owning reliability, incident response, observability, and automation for large-scale AI systems and GPU clusters. | ServeData | 8 |
| Technical Product Manager - Robotaxi Product Manager for L4 autonomous driving solutions, focusing on defining, developing, and delivering AI-powered features for vehicles. This role bridges cutting-edge embodied AI and end-to-end learning with market-ready products, emphasizing customer experience and human interaction with AI in the context of robotaxis. | ShipAgent | 8 |
| Software Engineer - Sensor Systems, Robot Software Software Engineer role focused on building and delivering high-quality, reliable C++ software for edge devices on a fleet of autonomous vehicles. Responsibilities include sensor integration, data capture, real-time system management, fault tolerance, and performance monitoring, with a focus on enabling machine learning inference on the edge and supporting the Embodied AI and Science organizations. | ServeData | 7 |
| ADAS Feature Engineer This role focuses on building the application-layer software for ADAS features, integrating Wayve's AI capabilities with vehicle behavior. The engineer will develop C++ feature logic, validation tools, and system behaviors, working closely with ML, product, and vehicle integration teams to translate model outputs into reliable ADAS features for real-world vehicle environments. The role involves debugging, tuning, validation, and collaboration across various engineering and product teams. | Agent | 7 |
| ADAS Feature Engineer This role focuses on building the application-layer software that integrates Wayve's AI capabilities into real vehicle behavior for ADAS features. It involves designing and implementing C++ feature logic, validation tools, and system behaviors, working closely with ML, product, and vehicle integration teams to translate model outputs into reliable and customer-relevant ADAS features. The role emphasizes real-world testing, simulation, and debugging to ensure feature performance and robustness. | Agent | 7 |
| Systems Engineer, AI Validation Systems Engineer, AI Validation at Wayve, focusing on building confidence in autonomy systems by developing and implementing validation strategies, metrics, and test suites for Wayve AI Driver. This role involves analyzing test results and collaborating with various teams to ensure the successful integration and delivery of AI Driver products. | Eval Gate | 7 |
| Tech Lead, Remote Assist - Robotaxi Tech Lead role focused on the architecture and technical roadmap for Remote Assistance in Wayve's Robotaxi launch, connecting vehicle telemetry and operator support. Requires experience in real-time, safety-critical systems and product orientation. | ShipAgent | 7 |
| System Architect - Robotaxi System Architect role focused on integrating Wayve's AI Driver into robotaxi platforms, defining system architecture, requirements, and integration strategies with external partners. Requires strong systems engineering background in autonomous driving and experience with complex embedded systems. | ShipAgent | 7 |
| System & Data Scientist This role focuses on data acquisition and analysis for Embodied AI in autonomous driving. The System & Data Scientist will analyze Operational Design Domains (ODDs), traffic patterns, and regulatory behaviors to define data needs for model performance and predictability. Key responsibilities include ODD characterization, behavioral competency mapping, developing a framework for ODD permutation and scaling, analyzing current model behavioral patterns, and providing guidance on data gaps impacting Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF). The role requires strong data analysis skills and collaboration with various teams. | DataPost-train | 7 |
| Vehicle Validation Engineer Wayve is seeking a Vehicle Validation Engineer to ensure the real-world deployment of their AI driving systems. The role involves planning and executing vehicle tests, developing validation concepts, ensuring vehicle readiness, delivering test data and insights, and providing feedback on system performance from both technical and customer perspectives. The engineer will also contribute to improving testing processes and operational best practices as the team scales, and manage external supplier relationships. The role requires experience with vehicle diagnostics tools, structured vehicle testing, and the ability to analyze test data. Experience with autonomous vehicle systems and scripting/data tools is desirable. | ShipEval Gate | 7 |
| System Architect - Robotaxi System Architect role focused on integrating Wayve's AI Driver into robotaxi platforms, defining system architecture, requirements, and integration strategies with external partners. Requires strong systems engineering background in autonomous driving and experience with complex embedded systems. | ShipAgent | 7 |
| System Architect - Sensors System Architect role focused on defining and integrating sensor systems for an embodied AI technology company developing autonomous driving systems. The role bridges the gap between hardware sensor capabilities and the AI/ML models that use the data, ensuring optimal performance for driving use cases and mass production. | AgentServe | 7 |
| Vehicle Site Reliability Engineer Site Reliability Engineer for an AI-driven autonomous driving company, focusing on ensuring the resilience, efficiency, and seamless operation of the vehicles' AI systems and infrastructure. | Ship | 7 |
| Senior Software Engineer, Cloud, Simulation Senior Software Engineer role focused on Wayve's Simulation Technology team, which develops and evaluates the company's driving intelligence. The role involves evolving the simulation platform, integrating classical simulation techniques with machine learning, and working on robot emulator fidelity, visual fidelity, or efficient scaling. Responsibilities include owning KPIs for simulator cost and throughput, leading technical discussions, and implementing production-quality software. Requires experience with workflow orchestration, Python, and Kubernetes, with desirable experience in autonomous vehicles, ML inference systems, and modern machine learned graphics. | ServeAgent | 7 |
| Robotics State Estimation and Control Generalist Robotics Engineering role focused on state estimation and control for autonomous driving software, involving algorithm refinement, platform stability ownership, cross-functional collaboration, and customer support for new vehicle platforms. Requires C++ and Python proficiency, with experience in robotics/automotive contexts, control systems, and state estimation. | AgentData | 7 |
| Principal Software Engineer, Robot Software Principal Software Engineer role focused on the Robot Software platform for Embodied AI in autonomous vehicles. This role involves technical strategy, system architecture, engineering excellence, cross-functional partnership, and technical mentorship, with a focus on safety-critical systems and real-time performance. | ShipAgent | 7 |
| Tech Lead / Manager - Trajectory Generation and Controls Tech Lead/Manager for Trajectory Generation and Controls team at Wayve, focusing on real-world vehicle motion for autonomous driving. The role involves leading engineers, defining technical roadmaps, and owning the interface between the AI Driver, trajectory generation, and control systems. Requires experience in managing teams, leading technical direction for physical AI systems (especially autonomous vehicles), and production system delivery. Expertise in controls, trajectory generation, and ML integration is essential. | ShipAgent | 7 |
| Control Engineer Wayve is seeking a Control Engineer to join their Application Engineering team in Germany. The role focuses on localizing and advancing Wayve's autonomous driving technology for the German market, integrating, validating, and optimizing their MPC-based trajectory controller and AI software stack on new vehicle platforms. This involves working at the intersection of controls, systems integration, and applied machine learning to ensure safe and reliable driving in diverse real-world conditions. | AgentServe | 7 |
| Staff Data Scientist Staff Data Scientist at Wayve, a company developing Embodied AI technology for autonomous driving. The role focuses on supporting AI engineers by developing actionable insights from real and simulated driving data to improve the Wayve AI Driver's functionality, safety, and performance. Responsibilities include formulating performance metrics, designing experiments, and investigating model training and inference bottlenecks. | Ship | 7 |
| Senior Data Scientist Wayve is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to support AI engineers in developing actionable insights for the Wayve AI Driver. This role involves analyzing real and simulated driving data to improve the functionality, safety, and performance of autonomous driving systems. The candidate will help define performance metrics, design experiments, and investigate bottlenecks in model training and inference. | Ship | 7 |
| Senior Cloud SRE - AI/ML Platform & GPU Compute Founding Cloud SRE role to build and scale the reliability foundations of Wayve's AI cloud platform, including the Model Development Platform and GPU Compute platform, supporting model training and inference at scale. | ServeData | 7 |
| Machine Learning Manager, App SW Machine Learning Manager for Application Software at Wayve, leading a new Japan-based team to localize and advance autonomous driving technology for the Japanese market. This role involves building and leading a team, driving full-cycle development of autonomy features, and collaborating with central Autonomy teams and OEM partners. | ShipAgent | 7 |
| Technical Director, Embedded Vehicle Software Technical Director, Embedded Software Architecture role at Wayve, focusing on defining and leading the architecture of the vehicle software platform that powers AI systems for autonomous driving. Requires deep expertise in embedded systems, C/C++, system performance, and leading technical teams. The role involves close collaboration with AI, platform, and vehicle systems teams, as well as external partners like NVIDIA and Qualcomm. | ShipServe | 7 |