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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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First seen Oct 10, 2026 · Last verified Nov 5, 2026 (UTC)