Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Data for Embodied AI
Wayve
About this role
Senior Machine Learning Engineer on Wayve’s Science team responsible for building, scaling, and optimising next-generation world model architectures and the high-throughput data systems that feed them. The role bridges ML research and data engineering to acquire, process, and curate multimodal datasets (video, LiDAR, telemetry) at petabyte scale. Work will directly impact model training, evaluation, and deployment of embodied AI in real-world autonomy.
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About Wayve
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About Wayve
Headquarters
San Francisco, CA
Company Size
201-500 employees
Founded
2018
Industry
Technology
Glassdoor Rating
4.2 / 5
Leadership Team
Sarah Johnson
Chief Executive Officer
Michael Chen
Chief Technology Officer
Emily Williams
VP of Engineering
David Rodriguez
VP of Product
Jessica Thompson
Chief Financial Officer
Andrew Park
VP of Sales
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Salary
$156k – $210k
per year
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