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Very few people in AI can say this. Every role here, whatever the team, plugs into that.\nHere’s what this particular role covers.\nAbout our Engineering Teams\nWayve’s engineering teams are building the AI, robotics, simulation, data, and systems foundations needed to deploy a generalisable AI Driver safely and at scale.\nThe Enrichment and Curation team transforms fleet-scale driving data into high-quality training datasets, enrichments, and evaluation benchmarks for Wayve’s end-to-end AI Driver and foundation models.\nYour day-to-day\nBuild scalable methods to discover rare, high-value, and safety-critical scenarios in fleet data.\n\nUse embeddings, active learning, similarity search, model-assisted mining, and smart sampling to improve dataset coverage.\n\nDesign pipelines for automated enrichment, labelling, deduplication, and data-quality monitoring.\n\nRun experiments to understand which data mixtures and curation strategies improve model performance.\n\nCollaborate with foundation-model, evaluation, simulation, and infrastructure teams to move ideas into production.\n\nBuild benchmarks and slice analyses that expose model blind spots and guide the next data and modelling iteration.\n\nWhat you’ll be working on\nPetabyte-scale real-world driving and simulation datasets.\n\nData engines and retrieval systems using Python, SQL, Spark, embeddings, and multimodal models.\n\nTraining-data strategy for embodied vision-language and driving models.\n\nAutomated enrichment, active learning, and model-assisted labelling.\n\nEvaluation datasets that connect data decisions to real-world driving outcomes.\n\nYou should apply if\nYou have strong machine-learning and software-engineering fundamentals and can take applied research into production.\n\nYou are proficient in Python and a modern deep-learning framework and comfortable with SQL or large-scale data tools.\n\nYou have experience with data curation, foundation models, large-scale data wrangling, computer vision, or model evaluation.\n\nYou can reason about sampling, class imbalance, label quality, dataset coverage, and experimental design.\n\nYou enjoy ambiguous, cross-functional problems and communicate technical trade-offs clearly.\n\nExperience with autonomous driving, robotics, VLMs, active learning, similarity search, Spark, or distributed training is valuable.\n\nNot ticking every box? That’s totally okay! If you’re passionate about autonomy and keen to learn, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every requirement.\nMore about Wayve\nWayve is building the leading AI platform for autonomous driving. We are pioneering an end-to-end AI approach that enables vehicles to learn directly from real-world experience, developing the ability to adapt, generalise and improve at scale.\nOur ambition is to make autonomy universal. Wayve’s mapless and hardware-agnostic AI platform integrates with global OEM partners, enabling continuous software evolution from L2+ through to L4.\nHow we work - Locations & Flexible Working\nThis role is based in Sunnyvale. We operate a hybrid working model combining in-person collaboration with focused time working remotely.\nThe Interview Process\nInitial call / recruiter screen (25 min)\n\nCompetency interview (60 min)\n\nDeep-dive interviews (Programming, System Design, ML Breadth, PyTorch Debugging; 3-4 hours)\n\nFinal interview focused on mission, values, and level alignment\n\nWe’ll always explain the format and work around your availability.\nWhat’s in it for you (location dependent)\nSalaries benchmarked against the market annually\n\nMeaningful equity\n\nRelocation support and visa sponsorship where applicable\n\nHybrid working and access to vehicle workshops and labs\n\nLearning and development support\n\nComprehensive location-dependent health, family, retirement, and wellbeing benefits\n\nA quick, honest note before you apply.\nWayve is not a mature, fully-structured place with the playbook already written. Much of how we work is still being written, and if you join, you’ll help write it. That suits people who want real ownership more than people who need a settled structure from day one.\nIf that sounds like the kind of problem you want to spend your time on, we’d really like to hear from you.\nAt Wayve we're committed to creating a diverse, fair and respectful culture that is inclusive of everyone based on their unique skills and perspectives, and regardless of sex, race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding) or any other basis as protected by applicable law.\nFor more information visit Careers at Wayve. To learn more about what drives us, visit Values at Wayve\nDISCLAIMER: We will not ask about marriage or pregnancy, care responsibilities or disabilities in any of our job adverts or interviews. 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