Research Scientist Intern, Embodied Foundation Models (Evaluation) jobs in United States
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Wayve · 1 day ago

Research Scientist Intern, Embodied Foundation Models (Evaluation)

positionSunnyvale, CA
timeInternship
remoteOnsite
seniorityIntern

Wayve is the leading developer of Embodied AI technology, focused on enhancing automated driving systems. The role involves working on foundation models for embodied AI, training models on multimodal data, and publishing research at top-tier conferences.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)Autonomous VehiclesElectric VehicleMachine Learning
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Responsibilities

Work on foundation models for embodied AI, including large-scale pretraining, post-training, leveraging language, or improving reasoning capabilities
Train models on large-scale multimodal (vision, language, etc.) data efficiently in a multi-node distributed system, and evaluate their performance on open (and closed) datasets/benchmarks
Lead a high-impact research work and publish at a top tier conference (e.g., CVPR, ICCV, CoRL, NeurIPS, CoLM, RSS, ICRA, among others)

Qualification

Vision-language modelsLarge language modelsNatural language processingPythonPyTorchDeep learningMultimodal datasetsSoftware engineeringResearch publicationsDistributed training

Required

You have previous experience in vision-language models, large language models, natural language processing, especially around reasoning
You have solid software engineering fundamentals, especially in Python
You have previously used PyTorch or a similar library for deep learning (e.g. Tensorflow, JAX). Experience with multi-node distributed training of large models
You are interested in using large-scale multimodal (vision, language, etc.) datasets to improve embodied AI
You have previous publications in the following conferences (e.g., CVPR, ICCV, CoRL, NeurIPS, CoLM, RSS, ICRA, among others)
You are currently pursuing a graduate degree in a Computer Science, Machine Learning, Robotics, or related technical field
You are proficient in at least one backend/systems programming language (e.g. Python, Ruby, Java, etc)

Company

Wayve

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Wayve develops AI software for automated driving that learns from data to navigate environments.
dateFounded in 2017
location
London, England, GBR
people-size201-500 employees
web-link
https://wayve.ai

H1B Sponsorship

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2025 (34)
2024 (5)
2023 (1)
2022 (3)

Funding

Current Stage
Growth Stage
Total Funding
$1.26B
Key Investors
Innovate UKUberSoftBank
2025-07-28Grant
2024-08-29Series C
2024-05-06Series C· $1B

Leadership Team

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Alex Kendall
Co-Founder & CEO
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Max Warburton
Chief Financial Officer

Recent News

City A.M.
Microsoft rides the Wayve as self driving cars hit London streets
2026-01-09
Tech Xplore
AI helps pave the way for self-driving cars
2026-01-07
IndiaTimes
How London is becoming the new ‘battleground’ for US and China robotaxi services
2026-01-05
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