Principal Roboticist Robot Foundation Model
Wayve is a London-headquartered embodied-AI company developing and licensing mapless, vehicle-agnostic driving software for assisted, automated, and robotaxi applications.
About Wayve
Wayve Technologies Ltd. develops the Wayve AI Driver, an end-to-end, data-trained software platform that runs on onboard vehicle compute and native sensors. It is designed for OEM integration across L1 driver assistance through L4 automated driving, without HD maps.
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Candidate Availability
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About the Role
You will build, integrate, and maintain research robot platforms. You will develop C++ and Python robot software, create deployment and data-collection infrastructure, run experiments, troubleshoot hardware and software, build validation tests, and help guide robotics and ML technical direction.
Requirements
- Experience in robot manipulation and robot hardware
- Experience leading robotics efforts
- Strong C++ or Python programming experience
- Experience with robot control, planning, ROS, or ROS2
- Experience training and deploying learned robot policies
- Track record of high-quality robotics, embodied AI, or related research or engineering work
- Publications at ICRA, CoRL, IROS, or similar venues
- PhD or Master's degree with equivalent experience
- 5+ years of relevant industry experience
Responsibilities
- Build, integrate, and maintain robot hardware platforms
- Develop and maintain robot software in C++ and Python
- Create infrastructure for policy deployment, data collection, and evaluation
- Run real-world robot experiments and define data-collection pilots
- Collaborate on robot policy development, model evaluation, and data strategy
- Debug robotic software, hardware, and policy failures
- Build deployment, regression, and validation tests
- Help shape technical direction across robotics, ML, hardware, and experimentation