Wayve
Staff / Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Reinforcement Learning
Sunnyvale, California USA · Hybrid · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 5, 2026
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About the job
Advance reinforcement learning for end-to-end driving models, from identifying behavioral gaps and running experiments to evaluating and integrating improved policies into production driving systems.
What you'll do
- Shape and execute the reinforcement learning roadmap, with measurable behavioral goals.
- Develop and evaluate reward-guided and post-behavior-cloning methods, training workflows, and reward models.
- Define evaluation evidence and productionize successful methods; provide technical leadership through reviews and mentoring.
What they ask for
- Strong track record developing and experimentally validating reinforcement learning or related sequential decision-making methods on complex, high-dimensional problems.
- Deep understanding of reinforcement learning fundamentals, including policy and value learning, off-policy learning, function approximation, distribution shift, and learned-objective failure modes.
- Hands-on experience with behaviour cloning, reinforcement learning, or related methods.
- Proficiency in Python and PyTorch, strong software engineering practices, and experience building reliable ML training and evaluation systems.
Nice to have
- Experience with offline reinforcement learning, imitation learning, reward modeling, preference learning, or post-training large neural policies.
- Experience in autonomous vehicles, robotics, control, or other safety-critical physical systems.
Tools
Python, PyTorch, C++, CUDA
AI focus
Develop reinforcement-learning methods and reward-guided optimization for end-to-end autonomous-driving policies, including a learned emergency trajectory model and evaluation for safe deployment.
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