{"id":2984893,"url":"https://alion.io/job/wayve-staff-tech-lead-manager-machine-learning-vision-models-2","title":"Staff Tech Lead Manager, Machine Learning, Vision Models","company":{"id":55,"name":"Wayve","domain":"wayve.ai","url":"https://alion.io/company/wayve","size_band":"501-1000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Ashby","truth_index":null},"role":"AI/ML","role_family":"AI/ML","seniority":"lead","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["London, United Kingdom"],"countries":["GB"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":174000,"max_usd":321000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_remote_cell","sample_n":25},"experience_years_min":8,"visa_sponsorship":true,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Computer Vision","optional":false},{"name":"Embodied AI","optional":false},{"name":"Machine Learning","optional":false},{"name":"Multimodal AI","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"PyTorch","optional":false}],"status":"closed","first_seen_at":"2026-10-05T04:54:31Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-05","last_verified_at":"2026-10-21T22:41:39Z","board_verified":false,"closed_at":"2026-10-21T22:41:39Z","days_open":16,"trust":{"level":"not_scored","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":16},"description":"Before the detail, here's the challenge you'd help us solve.\nWe build the embodied intelligence that moves real vehicles safely, and the ecosystem a billion machines will run on in the future. 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.\nAbout the Measurement Team\nThe Measurement team within AI Evaluation builds and productionises the offline scene-understanding models that measure driving performance after on-road runs and in simulation. The team adapts on-vehicle and foundation-model technology to exploit the greater compute, model capacity, and temporal context available offline.\nYour day-to-day\nLead and develop a London-based team of Senior Machine Learning Engineers while remaining deeply engaged in technical direction.\n\nSet the architecture for robust, scalable offline scene-understanding and measurement models.\n\nTranslate ambiguous business goals into sprint, quarterly, annual, and multi-year technical roadmaps.\n\nReview designs and code, raise the engineering quality bar, and ensure models are reliable enough for customer-facing deliverables.\n\nAlign roadmaps across on-vehicle modelling, foundation models, Evaluation, Simulation, and Model Development Platform teams in the UK and US.\n\nIdentify capability gaps ahead of demand and build the technical and organisational case to address them.\n\nWhat you’ll be working on\nOffline models that predict and explain counterfactual driving outcomes.\n\nScene-understanding systems that assess coverage, mine rare events, and measure learned driving behaviour.\n\nRig-agnostic architectures built from transformer, multimodal, and foundation-model technology.\n\nProduction ML systems that shorten the loop between driving-model changes and reliable evaluation evidence.\n\nA growing senior team operating across multiple organisations and locations.\n\nYou should apply if\nYou have 8+ years in ML engineering, including hands-on computer vision with camera or lidar data and a record of shipping production ML systems.\n\nYou have 2+ years managing or tech-leading senior engineers and enjoy combining people leadership with technical leadership.\n\nYou bring staff-level depth in transformers, multimodal systems, foundation models, and large-scale training.\n\nYou are proficient in Python and PyTorch or a similar framework and have strong judgement about production-grade ML.\n\nYou can align roadmaps across teams and geographies and communicate technical strategy clearly to senior stakeholders.\n\nExperience with 3D scene understanding, offline models, simulation, counterfactual evaluation, or distributed teams is beneficial.\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 London. We operate a hybrid model combining in-person collaboration in our offices and workshops with focused time working remotely.\nThe Interview Process\nInitial call / recruiter screen (25 min)\n\nHiring Manager Domain Chat (60 min)\n\nDeep-dive interviews covering ML architecture, systems, and domain expertise (4 hours)\n\nFinal interview focused on mission and values alignment (45 min)\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, pension, 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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