Wayve
Vice President, AI Data
London, United Kingdom +1 · Hybrid · Director · Full-time · Posted Oct 2, 2026
- Location
- London, United Kingdom
Sunnyvale, California USA - Visa sponsorship
- Visa sponsorship where applicable.
About the job
Leads Wayve’s Data organisation and strategy, using real-world data to improve autonomous-driving AI across training, evaluation, deployment, and commercial programmes.
What you'll do
- Set the data strategy and own the learning loop from real-world signals through data discovery, curation, training, evaluation, deployment, and measurement.
- Lead data acquisition, enrichment, and investment decisions, including finding rare and safety-critical scenarios and connecting data value to model performance.
- Build and lead a multidisciplinary Data organisation and scalable global data strategy.
What they ask for
- Significant experience as a senior engineering or technical leader building and leading high-performing technical organisations.
- Experience at the intersection of AI, data, and large-scale model development, with data capabilities influencing model training, evaluation, and performance.
- Deep technical expertise in computer vision, video, multimodal AI, perception, or related large-scale ML problems.
- Experience with data discovery, selection, curation, and enrichment at scale; strong technical and commercial judgement.
Nice to have
- Experience in autonomous driving, robotics, or embodied AI.
- Experience with large-scale video or multimodal foundation model training, semantic search, embeddings, active learning, auto-labelling, or large-scale real-world data acquisition.
Tools
embeddings, semantic search, learned representations, active learning, auto-labelling
AI focus
Leads data strategy for autonomous-driving AI, including data discovery and selection for rare or safety-critical scenarios, and data use in foundation model training, evaluation, deployment, and performance improvement.
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