Role Description

The Vehicle Generalization team within Robotics Engineering is seeking a highly skilled and motivated Robotics State Estimation and Control Generalist to ensure the successful integration, characterization, and stable operation of our autonomous driving software across a growing range of new vehicle platforms. This role is critical for the initial bring-up phases of new vehicle development programs (ADPs), requiring deep expertise in control systems, state estimation, and hands-on system troubleshooting. The ideal candidate will be a generalist capable of quickly tackling complex, low-level robotics challenges on-site at our Sunnyvale location, working closely with Application Engineering and external customer teams.

Key Responsibilities

1. Algorithm Refinement and Tuning: Refine, tune, and generalize controller, state-estimation (odometry, localization), and perception algorithms for performance and stability across various new vehicle platforms.
2. Platform Stability Ownership: Own the stability and performance of new vehicle platforms during the critical ADP bring-up phases, including on-vehicle debugging and integration work.
3. Cross-functional Collaboration: Work closely with Application Engineering, Vehicle SoftwareIntegration, and Control teams to troubleshoot integration issues and provide expertise on the control stack.
4. Customer Program Support: Provide on-the-ground technical support for key customer programs (e.g., Nissan), which may require domestic and international travel.

Required Skills and Experience

• Experience: 3+ years of experience in a robotics or automotive context with hands-on robotic system characterization and system identification.
• Core Robotics Expertise: Strong background and practical experience with control system design, state estimation (including odometry and localization), and sensor fusion.
• Programming: Proficiency in C++ and Python.
• System Thinking: Demonstrated strong robotics system thinking, enabling quick diagnosis and resolution of complex integration issues in dynamic environments.
• Location/Travel: Willingness and ability to travel (domestic and international) for on-the-ground customer and vehicle support. Must be based in Sunnyvale, CA.

Nice-to-Have Skills and Experience

• Experience with automotive Drive-by-Wire (DBW) systems is strongly preferred.
• Familiarity with mapping/navigation data and advanced odometry techniques.
• Experience with data-driven development, including defining metrics, building tooling, and performing data analysis.
• Experience with advanced control techniques, particularly where motion planning/control is influenced by or performed by a neural network.
• Experience building and maintaining data pipelines for robotics development.
• Excellent cross-functional communication and teamwork skills.

The role 

In this role, you will lead Wayve’s Controls team, an experienced and growing group responsible for delivering robust real-world vehicle motion across our product platforms. You will guide a team working across controls, trajectory generation, and the interface with the Wayve AI Driver. The role combines technical leadership, team development, and delivery ownership, with the opportunity to shape both near-term product impact and the longer-term evolution of our technology.  This is a high-impact opportunity to lead a critical team at the intersection of control, AI, and real-world vehicle behavior.

Key responsibilities:

• Lead and develop the Motion Controls team, providing strong people leadership, technical direction, and clear priorities for an experienced and growing group of engineers.
• Own the team’s technical roadmap and delivery across short and long term horizons, translating product and system needs into clear priorities, technical plans, and timely execution.
• Own the interface between the Wayve AI Driver, trajectory generation, and control in a deployed autonomy system.
• Provide strong technical judgment across control, trajectory generation, and adjacent ML-informed system design, holding a high bar for engineering quality, technical rigor, deployed system performance, and motion quality.
• Work with key partners to align technical plans, product needs, and integration constraints in the delivery of robust deployed motion behavior.
• Shape the future direction and growth of the team to address emerging challenges at the intersection of control, AI, and real-world vehicle behavior.

About you  

In order to set you up for success as a TLM, Motion Controls at Wayve, we’re looking for the following skills and experience.  

Essential 

• Experience managing or leading engineers including setting priorities, driving execution, and supporting their growth and performance.
• Experience leading technical direction for complex autonomy, robotics, or other physical AI systems, ideally in autonomous vehicles or a closely related domain.
• Experience building, shipping, and maintaining production systems, including translating product and system requirements into technical plans and execution.
• Expertise in controls, trajectory generation, motion planning, or closely related autonomy problems, including strong understanding of physical system dynamics, closed-loop behavior, and controller design tradeoffs.
• Experience working on production systems that incorporate machine learning models, ideally in domains such as prediction, trajectory generation, planning, or control.
• Experience working across system boundaries, with the ability to consider factors across software, platform, and physical boundaries.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals, with experience delivering high-quality production code and setting a high technical bar for others.

Desirable 

• Experience managing engineers and growing teams.
• Experience with classical search- or optimization-based motion planning, optimal control, MPC, or related motion-generation methods.
• Experience working in production release environments, ideally involving real hardware or multiple platforms
• Experience with automotive-grade software development processes or safety-related standards such as ISO26262 or SOTIF.
• Experience with Python and C++ in production autonomy or robotics systems.

This is a full-time role based in our office in Sunnyvale or London.  At Wayve we want the best of all worlds so we operate a hybrid working policy that combines time together in our offices and workshops to fuel innovation, culture, relationships and learning, and time spent working from home.  

The role 

In this role, you will lead Wayve’s Controls team, an experienced and growing group responsible for delivering robust real-world vehicle motion across our product platforms. You will guide a team working across controls, trajectory generation, and the interface with the Wayve AI Driver. The role combines technical leadership, team development, and delivery ownership, with the opportunity to shape both near-term product impact and the longer-term evolution of our technology.  This is a high-impact opportunity to lead a critical team at the intersection of control, AI, and real-world vehicle behavior.

Key responsibilities:

• Lead and develop the Motion Controls team, providing strong people leadership, technical direction, and clear priorities for an experienced and growing group of engineers.
• Own the team’s technical roadmap and delivery across short and long term horizons, translating product and system needs into clear priorities, technical plans, and timely execution.
• Own the interface between the Wayve AI Driver, trajectory generation, and control in a deployed autonomy system.
• Provide strong technical judgment across control, trajectory generation, and adjacent ML-informed system design, holding a high bar for engineering quality, technical rigor, deployed system performance, and motion quality.
• Work with key partners to align technical plans, product needs, and integration constraints in the delivery of robust deployed motion behavior.
• Shape the future direction and growth of the team to address emerging challenges at the intersection of control, AI, and real-world vehicle behavior.

About you  

In order to set you up for success as a TLM, Motion Controls at Wayve, we’re looking for the following skills and experience.  

Essential 

• Experience managing or leading engineers including setting priorities, driving execution, and supporting their growth and performance.
• Experience leading technical direction for complex autonomy, robotics, or other physical AI systems, ideally in autonomous vehicles or a closely related domain.
• Experience building, shipping, and maintaining production systems, including translating product and system requirements into technical plans and execution.
• Expertise in controls, trajectory generation, motion planning, or closely related autonomy problems, including strong understanding of physical system dynamics, closed-loop behavior, and controller design tradeoffs.
• Experience working on production systems that incorporate machine learning models, ideally in domains such as prediction, trajectory generation, planning, or control.
• Experience working across system boundaries, with the ability to consider factors across software, platform, and physical boundaries.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals, with experience delivering high-quality production code and setting a high technical bar for others.

Desirable 

• Experience managing engineers and growing teams.
• Experience with classical search- or optimization-based motion planning, optimal control, MPC, or related motion-generation methods.
• Experience working in production release environments, ideally involving real hardware or multiple platforms
• Experience with automotive-grade software development processes or safety-related standards such as ISO26262 or SOTIF.
• Experience with Python and C++ in production autonomy or robotics systems.

This is a full-time role based in our office in Sunnyvale or London.  At Wayve we want the best of all worlds so we operate a hybrid working policy that combines time together in our offices and workshops to fuel innovation, culture, relationships and learning, and time spent working from home.  

The role 

As a Tech Lead, Machine Learning Engineer within Wayve’s AV Product Engineering team, you will lead the navigation workstream for our end-to-end autonomous driving system - spanning L2+, L3, and robotaxi products. This is a rare opportunity to own your work from model training all the way through to deployment in production vehicles, with full visibility into the entire pipeline. Joining a small, high-impact team, you will set the technical direction for navigation ML and have meaningful scope for growth as the team expands.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the navigation workstream, including route planning, rerouting, and driving across L2+, L3, and robotaxi products.
• Train and deploy end-to-end models for navigation and driving features, owning the full lifecycle from model training through to vehicle integration and production deployment.
• Define the roadmap and technical vision for navigation ML within the AV Features team, helping shape the direction of L2+ driving features.
• Collaborate closely with the Evaluation, Robot Software, and Data Platform teams to iterate rapidly and improve model performance.
• Leverage closed-loop and open-loop evaluation frameworks to measure driving quality and validate production readiness.
• Mentor and support junior engineers on the team and shape the long-term technical direction
  

About you  

In order to set you up for success as a Tech Lead ML Engineer at Wayve, we’re looking for the following skills and experience

Essential 

• 7+ years of ML engineering experience with a strong track record of shipping deep learning systems to production.
• Proficient in Python and other relevant languages (e.g. C++ and CUDA) and ML frameworks (esp. PyTorch), with a solid foundation in software engineering practices.
• Hands-on experience with transformer-based and multimodal architectures, including vision-language models (VLM), vision-language-action models (VLA), or equivalent.
• Demonstrated ability to train and deploy end-to-end ML models for production systems.
• Strong understanding of end-to-end learning approaches for driving, embodied AI, or related domains.
• Ability to take full ownership of a technical workstream - driving it from research and experimentation through to production deployment.

Desirable 

• Prior work in autonomous driving, imitation learning, or trajectory prediction. Or background in the AV industry, ideally from a perception, planning, controls, or evaluation team.
• Experience with closed-loop simulation and open-loop evaluation for autonomous driving or robotics systems.
• Familiarity with navigation problems, route planning, or multi-modal sensor fusion.
• Research publications in relevant areas (machine learning, robotics, computer vision) - less critical than strong applied production experience

This is a full-time role based in our office in Sunnyvale.  At Wayve we want the best of all worlds so we operate a hybrid working policy that combines time together in our offices and workshops to fuel innovation, culture, relationships and learning, and time spent working from home. 

The role 

We are hiring Senior and Staff ML Engineers that sit within Safety Systems / autonomy organisations, building critical behaviours for Level 2 to level 4 driving. It is highly product-focused: you will train and iterate on end-to-end driving models and get them shipped into the car on a fast timeline measured in months. The opportunity is to own the full loop from data and training through evaluation and on-road validation, with direct impact on high-priority commercial deliveries (including the Nissan MVP). You will join a small, high-ownership teams at the point of rapid growth, where execution and real-world outcomes matter.

Key responsibilities

• Develop the AI driver model architecture and training algorithms to introduce and enhance the safety behaviors for L2/L3/L4
• Own key parts of the training model lifecycle, including evaluation strategy, success metrics, and iteration planning.
• Mine, bucket, and curate real-world and synthetic data to teach specific driving behaviours, and implement data schemes to support training.
• Run and analyse on-road and offline experiments, translate results into clear next steps, and drive improvements through repeated training cycles.

About you  

In order to set you up for success as a Machine Learning Engineer at Wayve, we’re looking for the following skills and experience.  

Essential

• Proven experience training deep learning models, with clear end-to-end ownership (data, training, evaluation, iteration).
• Proven Experience taking ML models into production, including working through real-world constraints and quality and safety requirements.

Desirable

• Reinforcement learning experience (especially where it materially improved real-world performance).
• Experience with end-to-end driving models and / or transformer networks 
• Automotive or OEM experience, or prior work that involved deploying ML into safety-critical systems.
• Experience with a Pytorch lightning training infrastructure 

This is a full-time role based in our office in Israel.  At Wayve we want the best of all worlds so we operate a hybrid working policy that combines time together in our offices and workshops to fuel innovation, culture, relationships and learning, and time spent working from home.