Wayve
Staff Robotics Engineer, 3D Sensing
$276K–$294K
Sunnyvale, California USA +1 · Hybrid · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 14, 2026
- Location
- Sunnyvale, California USA
London, United Kingdom - Experience
- Significant experience required; no number of years stated.
- Visa sponsorship
- Visa sponsorship where applicable.
About the job
Leads the design, development, evaluation, and deployment of LiDAR and cross-sensor 3D sensing systems for autonomous vehicles.
What you'll do
- Define the architecture and technical roadmap for LiDAR and cross-sensor 3D sensing.
- Develop calibration, registration, temporal alignment, and motion-compensation methods.
- Productionise and evaluate 3D sensing systems, providing technical leadership and mentorship.
What they ask for
- Significant experience developing robotics or autonomous-driving systems involving LiDAR, cameras, and 3D sensor data.
- Strong experience in sensor calibration and registration, including LiDAR-to-camera alignment.
- Understanding of 3D geometry, state estimation, and optimisation, including nonlinear least-squares methods or factor graphs.
- C++ and/or Python software-engineering skills and experience taking robotics algorithms from prototype through production deployment.
Nice to have
- Experience with LiDAR odometry, SLAM, or mapping systems.
- Experience with metric-depth foundation models, learned feature correspondences, cross-modal registration, Gaussian splatting, dynamic-scene methods, or optimisation libraries such as GTSAM, Ceres Solver, or g2o.
Pay
$276,100 – $293,750 (base salary or total pay not specified)
Tools
LiDAR, C++, Python, GTSAM, Ceres Solver, g2o
AI focus
Develops 3D sensing capabilities that provide accurate sensor data for autonomous-driving perception, reconstruction, and ground-truth generation; desirable work includes metric-depth foundation models and learned approaches.
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