Senior Software Engineer, Data Flywheel Platform

Wayve; Sacramento (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Wayve is hiring a senior Software Engineer to build the platform powering our data flywheel and foundation‑model stack. This role delivers pipelines, infrastructure, and systems that turn world‑scale fleet data into high‑signal training data, enabling scalable model development across the company.

You will collaborate with Applied Scientists and ML Engineers to take research to production at scale, replacing ad‑hoc scripts with self‑serve, observable products used across Science, Autonomy and

Qualifications

• Strong production software engineering experience with Python.
• Extensive work with large-scale data pipelines and distributed systems.
• Solid SQL skills and performance optimization experience.
• Track record of shipping reliable production systems with observability.

Responsibilities

• Build and scale data curation and enrichment pipelines for world-scale data.
• Develop evaluation infrastructure for offline and model evaluation.
• Design and optimize training and serving infrastructure for large models.
• Develop the data-platform backbone: distributed processing, vector search, lakehouse formats.
• Make systems self-serve, observable, and maintainable for multiple teams.

Skills

Production Python

Distributed systems

SQL

Observability

Education

CS degree or equivalent

Tools

Flyte

Airflow

Dagster

Spark / PySpark

Ray

Databricks

Job description

Wayve is hiring a senior Software Engineer to build the platform powering our data flywheel and foundation‑model stack. This role delivers pipelines, infrastructure, and systems that turn world‑scale fleet data into high‑signal training data, enabling scalable model development across the company.

You will collaborate with Applied Scientists and ML Engineers to take research to production at scale, replacing ad‑hoc scripts with self‑serve, observable products used across Science, Autonomy and