Senior Machine Learning Engineer - AV Core

Wayve; London (KY); Hybrid; USD 119,000 - 172,000; Full time

Job summary

Wayve is hiring a Senior Machine Learning Engineer in London to lead on data curation, rare event mining, and robust model introspection for driverless operation. You will work with core teams across research, simulation, and applied engineering on scalable ML infrastructure.

The role emphasizes hands-on Python/PyTorch work, distributed computing, and ownership of technical areas within a hybrid, office-and-work-from-home setting in London.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience building ML systems deployed in real world environments.
• Strong Python and PyTorch proficiency with reliable training/evaluation pipelines.
• Experience with ML operations, distributed computing, and large-scale inference.
• Ability to own technical areas and communicate clearly across teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead large-scale data enrichment within the Core Model Safety team.
• Build workflows for data curation and rare event mining to improve model performance.
• Design and train out-of-distribution detection mechanisms for robust operation.
• Work at the interface of model engineering, infra, compute, and data.
• Improve efficiency of the ML and operations stack with sound judgment.

Skills

Python

PyTorch

ML systems

Distributed computing

Leadership

Tools

CUDA

C++

Job description

Before the detail, here's the challenge you'd help us solve.

We build the embodied intelligence that moves real vehicles safely, and the ecosystem a billion machines will run on in the future. Very few people in AI can say this. Every role here, whatever the team, plugs into that.

Here’s what this particular role covers.

The role

As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer in Wayve's AV Core organisation, you will lead on methods for large-scale data curation and mining, including rare events from a heterogeneousfleet, enabling model introspection for robust driverless operation. You will bring insight into how our algorithms perform in the real world, seek failure modes, and drive ways to efficientlyimprove and evaluate them.The Core Model Safety team builds foundational capabilities for assisted and automated driving - collision avoidance, model understanding, and robustness under failure.You will work in a focused, high-impact senior team with strong ownership, access to large-scale training and fleet data, and close partners in research, simulation, evaluation, and appliedengineering.

Key responsibilities

• Lead on large-scale data enrichment within the Core Model Safety team, including collaborations with Pre/Midtraining, reward modelling, self-supervised labelling, and the Data Enrichment Platform.

• Build workflows for large-scale enrichment, data curation, and hard/rare event mining in support of robust model performance and introspection.

• Design and train out-of-distribution detection mechanisms to enable robust driverless operation.

• Work at the intersection of model engineering, infrastructure, compute, and data, shaping the boundaries and architecture across those teams.

• Use your judgement and expertise to improve the overall efficiency of the machine learning and operations stack.

About you

In order to set you up for success as a Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Wayve, we'relooking for the following skills and experience.

Essential

• Hands-on experience with ML systems deployed in the real world.

• Proficiency in Python and PyTorch, with strong software engineering practices and hands-on experience building reliable machine learning training and evaluation systems.

• A strong track record with ML operations and infrastructure, including experience with distributed computing environments and large-scale inference.

• Senior-level ownership and collaboration: able to lead a substantial technical area, work across research and engineering boundaries, and bring others along through clear written and verbal communication.

Desirable

• Prior experience in autonomous vehicles or robotics with hands-on deployment and closed-loop validation on physical systems.

• Experience mining, generating, or evaluating rare events using simulation and fleet or heterogeneous real-world data.

• Experience setting up cloud-based monitoring solutions for large-scale operations, including dashboards, logging, and real-time alerts.

• Experience with transformer-based and multimodal architectures, including vision-language models (VLM), vision-language-action models (VLA), or equivalent.

• Proficiency in C++, CUDA, distributed training, or performance optimization for production machine learning systems.

This is a full-time role based in our office in London. At Wayve we want the best of allworlds, so we operate a hybrid working policy that combines time together in our offices andworkshops to fuel innovation, culture, relationships and learning, and time spent working fromhome.

A quick, honest note before you apply.

Wayve is not a mature, fully-structured place with the playbook already written. Much of how we work is still being written, and if you join, you’ll help write it. That suits people who want real ownership more than people who need a settled structure from day one.

If that sounds like the kind of problem you want to spend your time on, we’d really like to hear from you.