Wayve
Staff Validation Systems Engineer, AI Validation
$276K–$311K
Sunnyvale, California USA · Hybrid · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 2, 2026
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About the job
Develop validation strategies, tools, metrics, and evidence to assess L2+ driving features and new AI Driver capabilities for safety and release readiness.
What you'll do
- Translate requirements into validation plans, scenarios, metrics, coverage, and acceptance criteria.
- Build and use Python-based evaluation tooling, simulation, test systems, and data analysis workflows.
- Analyze and communicate validation evidence, risks, and recommendations to cross-functional stakeholders.
What they ask for
- Experience validating autonomous-driving, robotics, or closely related intelligent products, particularly learned or adaptive behaviours.
- Hands-on experience building scenarios, metrics, test suites, evaluation pipelines, or data-analysis workflows.
- Professional Python skills and comfort with SQL or similar large-scale analysis tools.
- Experience validating complex systems in simulation, the real world, or both.
Nice to have
- ML, computer vision, motion planning, SOTIF, safety validation, or modern AI-tooling experience.
- Direct automotive OEM experience.
Pay
$276.1K – $311.4K (base salary)
Tools
Python, SQL
AI focus
Validates L2+ driving features, learned or adaptive behaviours, human–automation interactions, and new AI Driver capabilities.
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