{"id":2985041,"url":"https://alion.io/job/wayve-vice-president-ai-data-2","title":"Vice President, AI Data","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":"Leadership","role_family":"Leadership","seniority":"head","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","Sunnyvale, United States"],"countries":["GB","US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":201000,"max_usd":377000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_remote_cell","sample_n":71},"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":true,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Computer Vision","optional":false},{"name":"Embeddings","optional":false},{"name":"Embodied AI","optional":false},{"name":"Multimodal AI","optional":false},{"name":"Semantic Search","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-02T15:49:33Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-02","last_verified_at":"2026-10-28T10:30:01Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":25,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":25},"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 Teams\nAt Wayve, we are building AI that learns to drive from experience.\nWe do not hand-code cars to drive. Our models learn from data gathered across the real world, making our ability to identify, understand and learn from the right data fundamental to everything we build.\nOur Data organisation sits at the heart of this learning loop. It works across AI, Science, Validation, Product, Compute and our commercial programmes to determine what data Wayve needs, how we acquire and understand it, and how we turn it into measurable improvements in our AI Driver.\nThe scale and shape of the problem is unique. Our data comes from our own vehicles, OEM programmes, partners and external sources, spanning different vehicles, sensors, markets and driving environments. Within that corpus, the most valuable examples are often the hardest to find: rare behaviours, unusual interactions, safety-critical events and the long tail of real-world driving.\nWe are looking for a VP of Data to lead this organisation and own the data strategy behind Wayve’s autonomous driving technology.\nYour day-to-day\nAs VP of Data, you will have end-to-end ownership of how Wayve uses data to improve our AI.\nYou will set the strategy across the complete AI learning cycle, determining what data we need and how it should drive model performance, from foundation model training through specialised driving capabilities and production programmes.\nYou will lead a multidisciplinary Data organisation and work closely with senior leaders across Engineering, AI, Science, Validation, Product, Compute, Finance and Commercial teams.\nThis is not simply about building systems that process data. You will be responsible for deciding what data matters and why, making significant technical and investment decisions, and building the strategy, organisation and learning loop that enables Wayve to learn from the real world faster.\nWhat you’ll be working on:\nOwning Wayve’s data strategy: Set the strategy across the complete AI learning cycle and determine where data can have the greatest impact on model capability and performance.\n\nBuilding the data flywheel: Own the learning loop from real-world signals and model behaviour through data discovery, curation and enrichment into training, evaluation, deployment and measurement.\n\nFinding the data that matters: Develop intelligent approaches to discovering rare, surprising and safety-critical scenarios within extremely large datasets, using techniques such as embeddings, semantic search, learned representations and model-driven data selection.\n\nLeading data acquisition and enrichment: Define how Wayve collects, buys, generates and enriches data across our own fleet, OEM programmes, partners and external sources, balancing coverage, quality, speed and economics.\n\nConnecting data investment to model performance: Establish how we measure the value of data and make rigorous trade-offs across quality, accuracy, speed, cost and scale, ensuring investment is focused where it creates the greatest impact.\n\nScaling our data strategy globally: Build an approach that supports multiple OEMs, vehicle platforms, sensor configurations, geographies and regulatory environments while maintaining a scalable global architecture.\n\nBuilding and leading the organisation: Develop a high-performing, multidisciplinary Data organisation capable of operating across Wayve’s research, engineering and commercial programmes.\n\nYou should apply if:\nYou are a senior engineering or technical leader with significant experience building and leading high-performing technical organisations.\n\nYou have operated at the intersection of AI, data and large-scale model development, with data capabilities that directly influence model training, evaluation and performance.\n\nYou have deep technical expertise in areas such as computer vision, video, multimodal AI, perception or related large-scale ML problems.\n\nYou have strong intuition for what makes data valuable and experience with data discovery, selection, curation and enrichment at scale.\n\nYou can move comfortably between strategy and technical detail, from defining an organisation-wide data strategy to going deep on a dataset, model behaviour or learning loop.\n\nYou have strong technical and commercial judgement and have made meaningful trade-offs across quality, speed, cost, scale and build-versus-partner decisions.\n\nYou are comfortable setting direction in ambiguity and influencing senior technical and business stakeholders across organisational boundaries.\n\nExperience in autonomous driving, robotics or embodied AI would be particularly valuable, as would experience with large-scale video or multimodal foundation model training, semantic search, embeddings, active learning, auto-labelling, or large-scale real-world data acquisition.\nNot ticking every box? That’s totally okay! If you’re passionate about autonomy and keen to make an impact, 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.\nInstead 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.\nWe 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+ through to L4 as our core AI model scales.\nIn 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.\nThis role can be based in either our London or Sunnyvale office.\nWhat’s in it for you\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 opportunity to work closely with our vehicles, workshops and labs\nLearning and development support, including training, conferences and opportunities for continued growth\nComprehensive location-dependent benefits including health insurance, dental, enhanced maternity and paternity leave, retirement or pension support, access to therapists, wellbeing partnerships, team socials and more\nWayve is committed to creating an inclusive interview experience. If you require any accommodations or adjustments to participate fully in our interview process, please let us know.\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, 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, or any other basis protected by applicable law.\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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