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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 Ingestion Systems Team \nOur Ingestion Systems team sits within Wayve’s AI Platform organisation and builds the data foundations behind our self-driving technology. We process vast amounts of real-world driving data so it can be used for annotation, model training and evaluation. Operating at petabyte scale, the team focuses on making these critical data flows reliable, efficient and easy to operate.\nYour day-to-day\nDebug and unblock failing ingestion pipelines, stalled jobs and processing queues\n\nInvestigate corrupt, malformed or unexpected data from a variety of sources.\n\nOptimise Spark jobs and batch-processing pipelines for throughput, reliability and compute efficiency.\n\nDesign and implement more resilient pipelines so individual bad data segments do not block wider workflows.\n\nImprove monitoring, retries and failure recovery across multi-step ingestion workflows.\n\nHelp prioritise and unblock important datasets for downstream annotation, data science and model-training teams, and contribute to the technical direction of Wayve's ingestion platform.\n\nWhat you’ll be working on\nHigh-volume pipelines that process real-world driving data for annotation, data science, model training and evaluation.\n\nResilient systems that isolate problematic data rather than allowing a single bad segment to block a wider workflow.\n\nOrchestration across complex dependencies, queues, retries and priority data flows.\n\nPragmatic improvements to the performance, cost and operability of our Spark-based data platform.\n\nIngestion of varied data formats from partners, suppliers and other third-party sources.\n\nYou should apply if\nYou have strong production experience with Apache Spark and Python.\n\nYou have built, operated or debugged large-scale ingestion, ETL or distributed data-processing pipelines.\n\nYou are comfortable diagnosing production failures involving corrupt data, stalled queues, retries and complex dependencies.\n\nYou understand how to optimise high-throughput systems for reliability, performance and cost.\n\nYou can learn an existing system quickly, work independently and deliver practical improvements in a fast-moving environment.\n\nExperience with Airflow, Flyte, Databricks, Delta Lake, Scala or Java would be an advantage.\n\n Not 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. Instead of relying on hand coded rules or pre mapped environments, our AI Driver learns to drive by understanding the world around it. The result is technology that navigates complex urban environments with intelligence, precision and natural flow, unlocking meaningful advances in both safety and efficiency. We believe autonomy represents a once in a generation transformation in how people and goods move, comparable to the shift from horses to cars, and from human driven vehicles to intelligent machines.\nOur ambition is to make autonomy universal. Wayve’s mapless and hardware agnostic AI platform integrates with global OEM partners, enabling continuous software evolution and unlocking advanced levels of automation from L2 plus through to L4 as our core AI model scales. In a race increasingly defined by intelligence and real world learning, Wayve is taking a distinct approach, building a generalisable driving intelligence that can power any vehicle, anywhere. By combining embodied AI with scalable deployment, we are creating technology that can be shaped to each OEM brand and driver experience, accelerating the transition to a safer, more intelligent future of mobility.\nHow we work - Locations & Flexible Working:\nOur main hubs are in London, Sunnyvale, Yokohama, Herzliya, Vancouver and Leonberg. We operate a hybrid working model that combines in-person collaboration in our dedicated office spaces with focused time working remotely. This gives our teams the connection and energy of working together, alongside the flexibility to do their best work in a way that fits their lives.\nThe Interview Process\nOur process is clear and respectful of your time\nInitial call / recruiter screen (30 mins)\nCompetency interview Python programming (60 mins), Hiring Manager interview (60 mins)\nDeep-dive technical interview: SQL domain (60 mins), Systems design (60 mins)\nFinal interview: Mission and values alignment (45 mins) We’ll always explain the format and work around your availability.\nWhat’s in it for you (Location dependant):\nSalaries benchmarked against the market annually\nMeaningful equity, sharing in the ownership and long term success of Wayve\nRelocation support and visa sponsorship where applicable\nHybrid working, core hours and the chance to work hands on in vehicle workshops and labs\nLearning and development budgets with support for training, conferences and growth\nComprehensive benefits including health insurance, dental, enhanced maternity and paternity leave, retirement or pension where applicable, access to therapists, wellbeing partnerships, team socials and more\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. 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