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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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First seen Oct 10, 2026 · Last verified Nov 4, 2026 (UTC)