Senior LiDAR & 3D Sensing Engineer

Wayve; Sunnyvale (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Market salaries

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Hybrid working

Learning budget

Health insurance

Dental plan

Maternity/paternity leave

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Wellbeing programs

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Job summary

Wayve in Sunnyvale, CA is seeking a senior robotics engineer to lead the development of LiDAR and cross-sensor 3D sensing systems for perception and ground-truth generation. You will own calibration, registration and timing challenges, and guide the architecture and roadmap for 3D sensing across vehicles.

You'll work closely with research and engineering teams, solve real sensor issues such as synchronization and motion effects, and mentor other engineers while delivering production-ready

Qualifications

• Significant experience developing robotics or autonomous-driving systems involving LiDAR, cameras and 3D sensor data.
• Strong experience with target-based or targetless sensor calibration and registration, including LiDAR-to-camera alignment.
• Strong understanding of 3D geometry, state estimation and optimisation techniques, including nonlinear least-squares methods or factor graphs.
• Experience accounting for sensor timing and motion effects, such as time synchronisation, LiDAR sweep distortion, rolling-shutter cameras and motion compensation.
• Strong software-engineering skills in C++ and/or Python, with experience taking robotics algorithms from prototype through evaluation and production deployment.
• Experience defining evaluation methodologies, datasets and metrics for assessing calibration, registration and 3D sensing quality across real-world conditions.
• Demonstrated technical leadership, including setting technical direction, solving ambiguous cross-functional problems and mentoring other engineers.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve the technical architecture and roadmap for Wayve’s LiDAR and cross-sensor 3D sensing capabilities, aligned with product and vehicle-programme requirements.
• Lead the development of target-based and targetless LiDAR calibration and registration methods, including LiDAR-to-camera alignment using geometric and learned approaches.
• Develop robust temporal alignment and motion compensation methods using techniques such as LiDAR odometry, nonlinear least-squares optimisation and factor graphs.
• Establish evaluation methodologies and productionise reliable, scalable 3D sensing systems that operate across diverse vehicles, environments and sensor configurations.
• Work with engineering and research teams to deliver end-to-end 3D sensing capabilities, while providing technical leadership and mentorship to other engineers.

Skills

Robotics systems

Autonomous driving

Sensor calibration

LiDAR-to-camera alignment

3D geometry

State estimation

Optimization

Time synchronization

Motion compensation

C++/Python

Production deployment

Evaluation methodologies

Technical leadership

Tools

GTSAM

Ceres Solver

g2o

Job description

Wayve in Sunnyvale, CA is seeking a senior robotics engineer to lead the development of LiDAR and cross-sensor 3D sensing systems for perception and ground-truth generation. You will own calibration, registration and timing challenges, and guide the architecture and roadmap for 3D sensing across vehicles.

You'll work closely with research and engineering teams, solve real sensor issues such as synchronization and motion effects, and mentor other engineers while delivering production-ready