Data-Centric AI Scientist/Engineer for Autonomous Driving

Wayve

Sunnyvale (CA)

Hybrid

USD 312,000 - 370,000

Full time

14 days+
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Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model
Equity package
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Job summary

Wayve in Sunnyvale, CA seeks an experienced ML role focused on data curation, enrichment, and model evaluation for embodied AI. You will advance data pipelines and large-scale models that drive autonomous driving capabilities across geographies and OEM platforms.

Ideal candidates have a Master’s or PhD with 6+ years of ML experience, strong Python/PyTorch skills, and a track record of taking ML to production with scalable data. Hybrid office arrangement and competitive equity are offered.

Qualifications

  • Master's degree (or PhD) with highly relevant ML/CS background.
  • Strong ML fundamentals and production-grade software experience.
  • Hands-on strength in data curation, model training, and evaluation.
  • Fluency in Python and PyTorch; comfort with large real-world datasets.

Responsibilities

  • Mine and curate world-scale driving data to improve models.
  • Create high-signal enrichments and labeling pipelines.
  • Develop and fine-tune large-scale pretrained models and experiments.
  • Evaluate offline and in closed-loop to drive progress and safety.

Skills

Python
PyTorch
Data wrangling
Production ML
Model evaluation

Education

Master's degree
PhD

Tools

Milvus
Ray
Spark
Lance
Iceberg

Job description

Wayve in Sunnyvale, CA seeks an experienced ML role focused on data curation, enrichment, and model evaluation for embodied AI. You will advance data pipelines and large-scale models that drive autonomous driving capabilities across geographies and OEM platforms.

Ideal candidates have a Master’s or PhD with 6+ years of ML experience, strong Python/PyTorch skills, and a track record of taking ML to production with scalable data. Hybrid office arrangement and competitive equity are offered.

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