Wayve
Robotics · AV foundation models
- HQ
- London, GB
- Founded
- 2017
- Website
- wayve.ai
Wayve currently has 52 active AI-related job listings. The majority of these roles, 44%, are in the application stage, with another 23% focused on data. Engineering is the most frequent function, and the United States and the United Kingdom are the top hiring countries. Frequent tech tags include embodied_ai, model_serving, and evals, suggesting a focus on deploying and evaluating AI models for real-world applications. Over the last 30 days, Wayve posted 10 new AI roles, a 37% decrease compared to the previous 30-day period.
Currently tracking 44 active AI roles, down 27% versus the prior 4 weeks. Primary focus: Ship · Engineering. Salary range $204k–$580k (avg $337k).
Wayve currently has 8 active AI-related roles in our index. The most common open titles are: Machine Learning Engineer, Machine Learning Engineer, App SW, Machine Learning Manager, App SW, Principal Engineer, Data & Compute, Register your interest for Wayve in Germany. Most positions are in Engineering and Product.
Wayve's active AI hiring is concentrated in: application (63%), data (25%), 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 (4 roles), United Kingdom (2 roles), Japan (2 roles), Germany (2 roles).
Job postings at Wayve most frequently mention: Machine Learning, Performance Optimization, Autonomous Driving, System Design, Simulation.
In the past 30 days, Wayve has posted 1 new AI-related role.
| Title | Stage | AI score |
|---|---|---|
| Machine Learning Engineer Machine Learning Engineer at Wayve, 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 production deployment strategies. The role involves deep learning expertise, software engineering practices, and experience with real-time systems or robotics. | ShipData | 9 |
| Principal Engineer, Data & Compute Principal Engineer, Data & Compute at Wayve, a company developing Embodied AI for autonomous driving. This role focuses on designing and evolving the foundational compute and storage systems for large-scale AI model development, including training and inference workloads across thousands of GPUs and petabyte-scale data federation. The position requires deep expertise in distributed systems, GPU infrastructure, and petabyte-scale data architecture, with a focus on enabling AI research and rapid model deployment in a hybrid/multi-cloud environment. | ServeData | 9 |
| Engineering Internship, Enrichment and Curation Engineering Intern to work on foundation models for embodied AI, including large-scale pretraining, post-training, leveraging language, or improving reasoning capabilities. This involves training models on large-scale multimodal data and curating large multimodal datasets for training and evaluation. | Post-trainData | 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 |
| Tech Lead, Wayve Labs The role focuses on designing and training large-scale embodied foundation models for autonomous driving, developing world models and planners, innovating in reinforcement learning and reward modeling, and conducting empirical research on scaling laws and generalization. It involves working at the intersection of machine learning, simulation, robotics, and real-world deployment. | Post-trainAgent | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Software Engineer -System Performance, Robot Software Software Engineer focused on system performance for Wayve's robot software stack, enabling autonomous driving and data collection for AI model training. The role involves investigating and optimizing performance bottlenecks, integrating profiling tools, and collaborating with teams to enhance efficiency and reduce latency for onboard components and model experiments. | Serve | 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 |
| Site Reliability Engineer Site Reliability Engineer for Wayve, an Embodied AI company developing autonomous driving systems. The role focuses on ensuring the operational excellence, robustness, and reliability of AI-driven autonomous vehicles on public roads. Responsibilities include automating operations, developing metrics and monitoring systems, and providing out-of-hours support. | — | 5 |
| Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Vehicle SW Wayve is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer for their Vehicle Software team. This role focuses on ensuring the reliability, availability, and performance of the autonomous driving fleet's software systems. Responsibilities include building and operating monitoring/logging/alerting tools, driving incident response, designing automation for fleet operations, and partnering with other teams to define reliability metrics. The ideal candidate has proven SRE experience with complex distributed systems, strong Linux fundamentals, CI/CD, container/orchestration knowledge, proficiency in Python/C++/Rust, and experience with observability stacks. Experience with real-time/safety-critical systems, fleet operations, and cloud platforms is desirable. | — | 5 |
| 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, diagnostics, and performance monitoring. The role involves close collaboration with Embodied AI and Science teams to support model training and experimentation, and requires ensuring software runs reliably at scale with limited connectivity. Experience with embedded Linux, automotive sensors, IPC middleware, and distributed systems is essential. | ServeAgent | 5 |
| Software Integration Engineer (6 months Contract) Software Integration Engineer (Contract) at Wayve, focused on integrating and validating Wayve's AI software stack for autonomous driving on customer hardware platforms. Responsibilities include software bring-up, porting systems, integrating drivers, and developing automation for hardware integration into CI/CD and test infrastructure, collaborating with cross-functional teams and OEM partners. | — | 5 |
| Software Integration Engineer (6 months Contract) Software Integration Engineer (Contract) for Wayve's Application Software team, focused on localizing and advancing autonomous driving technology. Responsibilities include bring-up and validation of the AI software stack on customer hardware platforms, ensuring seamless performance across diverse SoCs and operating systems, and collaborating with cross-functional teams and OEM partners. | — | 5 |
| Embedded Automotive Software Engineer Wayve is seeking an Embedded Automotive Software Engineer to develop the software platform that interfaces with a vehicle's embedded hardware, enabling the deployment of AV software. This role focuses on sensor integration, hardware abstraction, and optimizing embedded systems for autonomous vehicles. | — | 5 |
| Commercial Strategy Manager Commercial Strategy Manager to own strategic partnerships (cloud compute) and initiatives, guiding strategy and delivering impact across technology and infrastructure partnerships. The role will focus on driving Wayve’s compute strategy and managing cloud and infrastructure partnerships as they scale next-generation embodied AI models. This involves sitting at the intersection of technical planning and commercial execution to secure capabilities, reliability, and economics for L4 autonomy. Responsibilities include owning relationships with hyperscalers, GPU providers, and infrastructure vendors, optimizing cost structure, building analytical foundations for infrastructure strategy, evaluating partners, conducting market analysis, and preparing leaders for external engagements. | — | 5 |
| Vehicle Safety Operator This role supports the development of AI driving systems by operating autonomous vehicles, evaluating their behavior, and providing feedback to engineering teams. Responsibilities include on-road testing, data collection, and ensuring safety standards. The role requires strong driving experience, communication skills, and adaptability. | Data | 5 |
| Release Manager Release Manager at Wayve, an Embodied AI technology company focused on autonomous driving. The role involves owning release cycles, managing issues and changes, identifying and improving release process bottlenecks, influencing tooling and automation, and collaborating cross-functionally to ensure reliable and timely software releases for fleet operations and product development. Requires strong understanding of SDLC, release management practices, CI/CD, and multi-platform releases. | — | 0 |
| Application Software Engineer - Embedded Software C++ Wayve is seeking an Application Software Engineer to join their Application Engineering organization, focusing on localizing and advancing Wayve's autonomous driving technology for the US market. This role involves the bring-up and early validation of their AI software stack on customer hardware platforms, ensuring seamless performance across diverse SoCs and operating systems. The engineer will collaborate with cross-functional teams and OEM partners to ensure smooth integration and reliable delivery. | — | 0 |
| Release Manager Release Manager at Wayve, an Embodied AI technology company focused on autonomous driving. The role involves owning release cycles, managing issues and changes, identifying and improving release process bottlenecks, influencing tooling and automation, and collaborating cross-functionally to ensure reliable and timely software releases for fleet operations and product development. Requires strong understanding of SDLC, release management practices, CI/CD, and multi-platform releases. | — | 0 |
| Global Logistics Manager Wayve is seeking a Global Logistics Manager to define, execute, and optimize global logistics, customs, transportation, and warehousing operations. This leadership role requires a strategic, hands-on individual to manage end-to-end logistics, ensure compliance with trade regulations, and manage partner relationships in a fast-moving, hardware-driven environment. | — | 0 |
| Application Software Engineer Wayve is seeking an Application Software Engineer to localize and advance their autonomous driving technology for the German market. The role involves bringing up and validating the AI software stack on customer hardware platforms, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and ensuring seamless performance. Responsibilities include software bring-up, porting systems, integrating drivers, developing automation, and resolving hardware-specific issues. | — | 0 |
| Principal Application Software Engineer Principal Application Software Engineer at Wayve, focused on localizing and advancing autonomous driving technology for the German market. Responsibilities include bring-up and early validation of the AI software stack on customer hardware platforms, porting systems, integrating drivers, and developing automation for testing and deployment. | — | 0 |
| Engineering Manager, App SW Engineering Manager for Application Software at Wayve, focusing on localizing and advancing autonomous driving technology for the Japanese market. This role involves leading the bring-up and validation of the AI software stack on customer hardware platforms, ensuring seamless performance across diverse SoCs and operating systems. Responsibilities include porting and configuring embedded systems, collaborating with verification teams, partnering with OEMs, enabling system diagnostics, and automating testing on target hardware. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer - OS & Kernel, Robot Software Software Engineer role focused on the OS and Kernel for Wayve's autonomous driving robot fleet. Responsibilities include developing and maintaining a custom Linux distribution using Yocto, creating and updating Linux kernel drivers for sensors, and hardening the system against cyber attacks. This role supports the data collection and iteration needs of AI model developers and scientists. | — | 0 |
| Software Developer, Software Developer role focused on building and deploying internal tools and automation sequences using low-code platforms, primarily for fleet operations. Requires strong skills in JavaScript, Python, SQL, and experience with data pipelines and APIs. The role bridges data infrastructure and user interfaces to solve operational challenges. | — | 0 |
| Director of Fleet Ops Execution This role leads the global execution of on-road testing for autonomous and assisted driving systems, managing regional test teams and partnering with Engineering and Product to ensure systems are validated and ready to scale. It focuses on operational planning, milestone tracking, and structured execution of technical testing requirements in real-world scenarios. | — | 0 |