Robotics ML Software Engineer: Scale AI for Real Robots

Engg; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Wayve is seeking an ML Software Engineer to join the MEGA team within Wayve Science. You will design and build software systems enabling foundation models for general-purpose robots, including pipelines for data, training, evaluation, and experimentation.

You will work close to models and data, building scalable ML infrastructure and tooling to support researchers across multiple embodiments and large multimodal datasets.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain scalable pipelines for data ingestion, model training, evaluation, and experimentation.
• Build reusable interfaces and shared tooling across data, models, training, evaluation, and downstream robotics workflows.
• Partner with researchers to translate evolving model and experiment needs into practical software systems.
• Diagnose and resolve performance, reliability, and usability bottlenecks across large-scale ML workloads.
• Raise the quality of the shared codebase through strong architecture, testing, documentation, and engineering standards.
• Support distributed training and data processing across large video, language, and robot-interaction datasets.
• Work closely with researchers to understand requirements of new models and experiments, translating those into practical software solutions.

Job description

Wayve is seeking an ML Software Engineer to join the MEGA team within Wayve Science. You will design and build software systems enabling foundation models for general-purpose robots, including pipelines for data, training, evaluation, and experimentation.

You will work close to models and data, building scalable ML infrastructure and tooling to support researchers across multiple embodiments and large multimodal datasets.