Wayve
Robotics · AV foundation models
- HQ
- London, GB
- Founded
- 2017
- Website
- wayve.ai
Currently tracking 29 active AI roles, up 373% versus the prior 4 weeks. Primary focus: Ship · Engineering. Salary range $284k–$466k (avg $363k).
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.
Wayve currently has 44 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), Applied Scientist, Wayve Labs. Most positions are in Engineering and Product.
Wayve's active AI hiring is concentrated in: application (57%), agents (14%), serving infrastructure (14%). 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 (26 roles), United Kingdom (15 roles), Japan (4 roles), Germany (4 roles).
Job postings at Wayve most frequently reference: embodied ai, model serving, evals, inference infra, fine tuning.
In the past 30 days, Wayve has posted 28 new AI-related roles. That is a +250% change versus the prior 30 days (8 → 28).
| Title | Stage | AI score |
|---|---|---|
| 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 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. |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Principal Machine Learning Engineer, App SW Principal ML Engineer at Wayve, focusing on developing and deploying end-to-end driving models for autonomous vehicles. The role involves leading initiatives in personalized and collaborative driving, building evaluation pipelines, curating data, and influencing ML system design for production. | 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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Vehicle Validation Engineer Wayve is seeking a Vehicle Validation Engineer to ensure their AI driving systems are ready for real-world deployment. This role involves planning and executing vehicle tests, developing validation concepts, and providing feedback on system performance to accelerate the development of automated driving. The engineer will work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure vehicles are prepared for testing and that high-quality data is delivered for rapid iteration. | Ship | 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 |
| Senior Software Engineer, Simulation Senior Software Engineer role focused on developing and evaluating Wayve's Embodied AI technology for autonomous driving. The role involves evolving a core component of the simulation platform, integrating classical simulation techniques with machine learning, and working on robot emulator fidelity, visual fidelity, or efficient scaling. Requires strong C++ and Python skills, systems design, and experience with simulation or modern machine learning graphics techniques. | ServeData | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |