Wayve
Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Search & Index
$312K–$351K
Sunnyvale, California USA · Hybrid · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 5, 2026
- Experience
- 7+ years in backend, infrastructure, or ML systems building production systems.
- Visa sponsorship
- Visa sponsorship where applicable.
About the job
Design, build, and operate a scalable search and indexing platform that makes multimodal driving data discoverable for curation, training, and research.
What you'll do
- Build and run search services, APIs, and ingestion and indexing pipelines for video, sensor, embedding, and metadata data.
- Evaluate and integrate embedding models, vector databases, ANN libraries, and vendors; develop frameworks to measure retrieval quality and system performance.
- Own components from design to production, collaborate across teams, and support engineers through code reviews and mentoring.
What they ask for
- 7+ years in backend, infrastructure, or ML systems building production systems.
- Hands-on experience with vector databases or ANN technologies such as FAISS or LanceDB.
- Understanding of multimodal embeddings and experience evaluating search quality.
- Strong coding skills in Python or another systems language; experience building search services, APIs, and large-scale ingestion and indexing pipelines.
Nice to have
- Large-scale ML pipelines or distributed data infrastructure.
- Multimodal data, active learning, semantic retrieval, training-data selection, autonomy, robotics, or vendor evaluation experience.
Pay
USD $311,850 – $350,625 (base salary)
Tools
Python, FAISS, LanceDB
AI focus
Build search and indexing infrastructure for multimodal driving data, including embedding-based retrieval and data workflows supporting ML research and training.
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