Wayve · 5 months ago
Senior Software Engineer - Wayve Foundation Model
Sunnyvale
Full-time
Onsite
Senior LevelWayve is the leading developer of Embodied AI technology, focused on enhancing the usability and safety of automated driving systems. The Senior Software Engineer role involves building infrastructure to support research and model development, ensuring efficient data pipelines and collaboration across teams.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Autonomous VehiclesElectric VehicleMachine Learning
Responsibilities
Design and scale infrastructure for data ingestion, filtering, and curation of multi-modal embodied data
Build robust, efficient training, evaluation, and inference pipelines to support foundation model development
Partner closely with scientists and MLEs to accelerate experimentation and unblock research
Improve ML systems performance, scalability, and automation across the stack
Act as a cross-functional force multiplier—connecting Science, Software, and Data teams through well-designed tooling and systems
Qualification
Required
Strong software engineering skills with experience building and maintaining distributed systems, data pipelines, or backend platforms at scale
Experience developing infrastructure that supports machine learning workflows—such as training orchestration, evaluation tooling, or inference systems
Comfort working closely with research or ML teams to understand their iteration needs and build systems that accelerate them
Familiarity with technologies like Flyte, Ray, Spark, Airflow, or Kubernetes, and an understanding of how to use them to scale data and compute
Ownership mindset with the ability to identify bottlenecks, operate across team boundaries, and 'get stuff done' in ambiguous, fast-moving environments
Preferred
Experience working with large-scale multi-modal datasets (e.g. video, LiDAR, radar, language) and designing systems for ingestion and filtering
Prior experience in a foundation model or autonomy-focused team, especially in an infrastructure or ML platform role
Contributions to open-source ML or infra projects (e.g. Flyte, Ray, Dask, MLFlow) or experience with evaluation tooling at scale
Demonstrated technical leadership—whether through driving cross-functional projects, mentoring others, or setting architectural direction
Company
Wayve
Wayve develops AI software for automated driving that learns from data to navigate environments.
Founded in 2017
201-500 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$1.26BKey Investors
Innovate UKUberSoftBank
2025-07-28Grant
2024-08-29Series C
2024-05-06Series C· $1B
Leadership Team
Alex Kendall
Co-Founder & CEO
Max Warburton
Chief Financial Officer
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