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Staff Validation Systems Engineer, AI Validation

wayveLondon, United KingdomSimulation, Evaluation, Validation
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Job type
Full-time
Experience
Senior
Posted
2 Oct 2026
Status
Open · checked 7d ago

About this role

Based in London, United Kingdom, this hybrid role is for a Staff Validation Systems Engineer focusing on AI Validation and suits an experienced individual contributor or manager comfortable owning ambiguous autonomy validation challenges. Wayve seeks a professional to develop validation strategies, metrics, and test systems for ADAS and L2 autonomy functions.

Role Overview

The Staff Validation Systems Engineer, AI Validation position operates within the AI Validation team at Wayve in London, UK. The role primarily concentrates on ADAS and L2 autonomy functions, aligning with automotive OEM, customer, safety, and regulatory expectations. Candidates can be hired either as a TC4 individual contributor providing senior technical ownership or an M4 manager responsible for people leadership and team delivery within a hybrid working environment.

Key Responsibilities

Translate product, systems, and safety requirements into validation strategies, test scenarios, metrics, coverage requirements, and acceptance criteria.
Work hands-on with Python, evaluation pipelines, test implementation, simulation, and data analysis.
Analyse results and communicate findings, risks, and evidence to Product, Safety, Release, and Autonomy Engineering stakeholders.
Coordinate data, simulation, and evaluation dependencies so validation can run reliably and at scale.
Develop comprehensive verification strategies for ADAS and L2 autonomy functions, translating customer, OEM, safety, and regulatory expectations into practical validation evidence.
Build test suites spanning simulation and physical testing environments.
Provide people leadership at the M4 level or strong senior individual-contributor ownership at the TC4 level.

Requirements

Understanding of how automotive companies and OEMs develop and validate ADAS or L2 autonomy products.
Ability to translate customer, safety, regulatory, and product expectations into structured validation strategies.
Hands-on experience building scenarios, metrics, test suites, evaluation pipelines, or data-analysis workflows.
Professional Python programming skills combined with comfort using SQL or similar large-scale analysis tools.
Experience validating complex systems in simulation, the real world, or both.
Clear communication skills, strong documentation practices, and the ability to own ambiguous problems from concept through evidence and recommendation.
Experience leading people or coordinating a validation function for M4 scope, or strong senior individual-contributor ownership for TC4 scope.

Nice to Have

Experience in machine learning, computer vision, motion planning, SOTIF, safety validation, or modern AI-tooling.

Skills and Tools

Python
SQL
Simulation environments
Data analysis workflows
Evaluation pipelines
ADAS and L2 autonomy validation tools

Salary and Benefits

Salaries benchmarked against the market annually
Meaningful equity
Relocation support and visa sponsorship where applicable
Hybrid working model with access to offices, workshops, and labs
Learning and development support
Comprehensive location-dependent health, family, retirement, and wellbeing benefits

About the Company

Wayve builds embodied intelligence to move real vehicles safely, developing an end-to-end AI approach that enables vehicles to learn directly from real-world experience. The company creates a mapless and hardware-agnostic AI platform integrating with global OEM partners to support continuous software evolution and automation from L2+ through to L4.

How to Apply

Interested candidates should apply on the official Wayve careers page.

Skills and tech stack

PythonSQLComputer Vision

Questions candidates ask

Where is the Staff Validation Systems Engineer position located?

The role is based in London, United Kingdom, utilizing a hybrid working model that combines office and workshop collaboration with remote work.

What level of experience or seniority is available for this role?

This position can be hired as a TC4 senior individual contributor or an M4 manager depending on the candidate profile.

What technical skills are required for the job?

Candidates must have professional Python programming skills and comfort using SQL or similar large-scale data analysis tools.

What specific product scope does this validation role focus on?

The role focuses primarily on ADAS and L2 autonomy functions, working closely with automotive OEM, customer, safety, and regulatory expectations.

Is visa sponsorship available for this position?

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

Ready to apply?

The application is on the official wayve careers page.

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