Wayve
Principal Data Engineer, Data Quality & Datasets Pipelines
$290K–$340K
Sunnyvale, California USA · Principal · Full-time · Posted Oct 22, 2026
- Experience
- Petabyte-scale pipeline experience is requested; no number of years stated.
- Visa sponsorship
- Visa sponsorship where applicable.
About the job
Build and operate petabyte-scale data quality, selection, ingestion, retention, and offload pipelines for driving datasets used to train Wayve’s AI Driver.
What you'll do
- Implement data filtering, retention, offload, and movement policies across storage tiers.
- Build pipelines and early decision points for pre-ingestion data selection, balancing compute costs against data value.
- Monitor dataset quality and work with data infrastructure and dataset strategy teams to preserve useful training coverage.
What they ask for
- Experience running data ingestion or data quality pipelines at petabyte scale.
- Strong Python and Spark skills, with cloud data engineering experience.
- Sound judgment in data filtering and quality, including verifying valuable data is not discarded.
- Ability to build and iterate on practical systems around models.
Nice to have
- Experience in AV, robotics, fleet data, or high-volume IoT.
- Experience with retention, offload, and data lifecycle policies.
Pay
$290K – $340K (base salary; currency stated as $)
Tools
Python, Spark
AI focus
Build the data systems and pipelines supporting pre-ingestion selection models; the role builds systems around models rather than the models themselves.
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