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Staff / Senior Machine Learning Engineer, AV Core

wayveSunnyvale, California USAAV Engineering
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Salary
$311,850 – $389,400
Job type
Full-time
Work mode
Remote
Experience
Senior
Posted
5 Oct 2026
Status
Open · checked 7d ago

About this role

This role suits experienced machine learning engineers with a track record in autonomous systems who thrive in ambiguous environments and want real ownership. This Staff or Senior Machine Learning Engineer position is based in Sunnyvale, California, and focuses on building safety-critical foundational models for autonomous vehicles.

Role Overview

As a Staff or Senior Machine Learning Engineer in Wayve's AV Core organization, you will lead the technical direction and delivery of learned emergency manoeuvre prediction and collision detection models. You will take the programme from problem definition through modelling, evaluation, integration, and evidence for deployment within a focused, high-impact senior team.

Key Responsibilities

Drive Core Model Safety roadmap themes, owning the full lifecycle from research to offline and online experiments to technology transfer.
Train and deploy end-to-end AV 2.0 models for emergency manoeuvre prediction and collision detection on the global fleet, using large-scale, diverse data to validate capabilities and improve generalisation.
Collaborate on online occupancy models for geometric and semantic perception.
Build high-value open-loop and closed-loop evaluations for core capabilities and representation learning.
Align priorities and learn from the organization across AV Core, Evaluation, and Product Engineering, while mentoring others on the team.
Maintain awareness of wider business context, division and company priorities, and near-term product programmes.

Requirements

Strong track record of machine learning engineering, including pathfinding in ambiguous problems from scoping and evaluations to establishing direction.
Hands-on experience with machine learning systems deployed in the real world.
Proficiency in Python and PyTorch with strong software engineering practices and experience building reliable training and evaluation systems.
Excellent experimental judgement to turn ambiguous behavioral problems into falsifiable hypotheses, useful metrics, disciplined ablations, and clear technical decisions.
Senior-level ownership and collaboration skills to lead a substantial technical area across research and engineering boundaries.

Nice to Have

Prior experience in autonomous vehicles or robotics with hands-on deployment and closed-loop validation on physical systems.
Experience in 3D scene understanding and representation learning for geometric and semantic perception, and large-scale semantic enrichments.
Experience mining, generating, or evaluating rare events using simulation and fleet or heterogeneous real-world data.
Experience with transformer-based and multimodal architectures, including vision-language models, vision-language-action models, or equivalent.
Proficiency in C++, CUDA, distributed training, or performance optimization for production machine learning systems.

Skills and Tools

Python
PyTorch
C++
CUDA
Transformer-based and multimodal architectures
Vision-language models and vision-language-action models

Salary and Benefits

Salary range of $311,850 to $389,400
Salaries benchmarked against the market annually
Meaningful equity sharing in company ownership and success
Relocation support and visa sponsorship where applicable
Hybrid working model with core hours
Learning and development budgets for training and conferences
Comprehensive benefits including health insurance, dental, enhanced maternity and paternity leave, retirement or pension, therapy access, wellbeing partnerships, and team socials

About the Company

Wayve builds an embodied intelligence and AI platform for autonomous vehicles that allows cars to learn directly from real-world experience. The mapless and hardware-agnostic AI platform integrates with global original equipment manufacturer partners to enable continuous software evolution across automation levels from L2 plus to L4. The company operates major hubs globally, including Sunnyvale, London, Yokohama, Herzliya, Vancouver, and Leonberg, with a hybrid working model.

How to Apply

To apply for this role, please visit the official company careers page.

Skills and tech stack

PythonPyTorchC++CUDAVision-Language ModelsVision-Language-Action ModelsMachine Learning

Questions candidates ask

What is the salary range for the Staff or Senior Machine Learning Engineer position?

The salary range is between $311,850 and $389,400.

Where is the job located?

The position is located in Sunnyvale, California USA, operating under a hybrid working model.

What programming languages and frameworks are required?

Candidates must be proficient in Python and PyTorch, with additional familiarity in tools like C++ or CUDA listed as desirable.

What is the interview process like?

The process includes an initial recruiter screen, competency interviews with the hiring manager and applied ML team, deep-dive technical interviews covering programming, systems design, and PyTorch debugging, and a final interview focused on mission and values alignment.

Is visa sponsorship available for this role?

Yes, relocation support and visa sponsorship are provided where applicable.

Ready to apply?

The application is on the official wayve careers page.

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