Wayve
Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Vision Models
$312K–$389K
Sunnyvale, California USA · Hybrid · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 2, 2026
- Experience
- 4+ years in ML engineering.
- Visa sponsorship
- Visa sponsorship where applicable.
About the job
Build and validate offline scene-understanding models and benchmarks to measure driving performance and support safety cases.
What you'll do
- Build, train, fine-tune, benchmark, and improve offline scene-understanding models.
- Define quality standards and statistically credible evidence for validation pipelines and safety cases.
- Collaborate across modelling, evaluation, data curation, and simulation teams; mentor others.
What they ask for
- 4+ years in ML engineering and experience training and shipping deep-learning models in production.
- Hands-on experience with modern computer-vision, transformer, multimodal, or VLM architectures.
- Experience adapting or fine-tuning large pretrained or foundation models; understanding of data, loss, and representation trade-offs.
- Proficiency in Python and PyTorch or a similar framework, and comfort with large-scale training.
Nice to have
- Experience in 3D scene understanding, offline modelling, auto-labelling, temporal or world models, autonomous vehicles, robotics, or distributed training.
Pay
USD 311,850 – 389,400 base salary
Tools
Python, PyTorch, transformer-based models, vision-language models, camera, lidar
AI focus
Develop offline AI scene-understanding models and automated benchmarks for measuring driving performance, finding rare events, and supporting validation and safety cases.
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