Staff Machine Learning Engineer Vision Models

Wayve is a London-headquartered embodied-AI company developing and licensing mapless, vehicle-agnostic driving software for assisted, automated, and robotaxi applications.

London, United Kingdom
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

Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.

About the Role

You will build, train, and fine-tune offline scene-understanding models. You will improve their accuracy and generalisation across vehicles, markets, and conditions; diagnose failure modes; establish benchmarks and quality bars; and produce statistically defensible evidence for validation pipelines and safety cases. You will align priorities across functions and mentor colleagues.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of machine learning engineering experience
  • Deep learning
  • Computer vision
  • Transformer
  • Multimodal model
  • Vision-language model
  • Detection
  • Segmentation
  • Classification
  • Scene understanding
  • Camera data
  • Lidar data
  • Foundation model
  • Python
  • PyTorch
  • Software engineering
  • Large-scale training
  • Technical leadership
  • Model evaluation
  • Metrics

Responsibilities

  • Build, train, and fine-tune scene-understanding models
  • Improve model accuracy and generalisation
  • Diagnose failure modes and address blind spots
  • Use offline compute, temporal context, and joint representation learning
  • Benchmark models and conduct error analysis
  • Define ground truth, correctness criteria, and automated benchmarks
  • Produce statistically defensible validation evidence
  • Align priorities across functions and mentor colleagues

Benefits

  • Competitive equity package
  • Hybrid working policy