Staff Tech Lead Manager, Machine Learning, Vision Models

• Join Wayve’s Measurement team within AI Evaluation as a Staff Tech Lead Manager, working hybrid from London. • Lead a London-based team of Senior Machine Learning Engineers while staying deeply involved in technical direction. • Build offline scene-understanding models that measure driving performance after on-road runs and in simulation. • Adapt on-vehicle and foundation-model technology to use the extra compute, capacity and temporal context available offline. • Shorten the loop between driving-model changes and reliable evaluation evidence. • Align roadmaps with teams across the UK and US.

• Bring 8+ years in ML engineering, including hands-on computer vision with camera or lidar data. • Show a record of shipping production ML systems. • Bring 2+ years managing or tech-leading senior engineers. • Combine people leadership with technical leadership. • Bring staff-level depth in transformers, multimodal systems, foundation models and large-scale training. • Work proficiently in Python and PyTorch or a similar framework, with strong judgement on production-grade ML. • Align roadmaps across teams and geographies and communicate technical strategy to senior stakeholders.

• Bring experience with 3D scene understanding. • Show experience building offline models. • Bring experience with simulation or counterfactual evaluation. • Show experience leading distributed teams across locations.

• Lead and develop a team of Senior Machine Learning Engineers in London. • Set the architecture for robust, scalable offline scene-understanding and measurement models. • Build offline models that predict and explain counterfactual driving outcomes. • Develop scene-understanding systems that assess coverage, mine rare events and measure driving behaviour. • Design rig-agnostic architectures using transformer, multimodal and foundation-model technology. • Turn ambiguous business goals into sprint, quarterly, annual and multi-year technical roadmaps. • Review designs and code so models are reliable enough for customer-facing deliverables. • Align roadmaps across on-vehicle modelling, foundation models, Evaluation, Simulation and platform teams. • Spot capability gaps ahead of demand and build the case to address them.

Wayve is one of the most exciting AI companies in the UK right now. They are tackling one of the hardest problems in technology, teaching machines to drive, and they are doing it with an approach that the rest of the industry is now converging towards. Backed by SoftBank, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Uber, Mercedes-Benz, Nissan, and Stellantis, Wayve has raised $2.8 billion in total funding and reached a valuation of $8.6 billion. With over 1,000 employees across London, Silicon Valley, Vancouver, Leonberg, Herzliya, and Tokyo, Wayve is scaling fast while keeping its London HQ at the centre. What stands out on Glassdoor (4.4/5 from 112+ reviews) is how consistently employees praise the culture, the calibre of colleagues, and the quality of the technical work. People describe it as some of the most interesting work of their careers. Wayve also offers an on-site chef, private healthcare, competitive pay with equity, and a genuine learning environment where you work alongside world-class ML researchers and engineers. That said, some reviews flag that the pace can be intense and that working across global time zones can stretch working hours. If you are an engineer, researcher, or operator who wants to work on genuinely frontier technology with real-world impact, and you thrive in fast-paced, mission-driven environments, Wayve is a rare opportunity.

• Earn a salary benchmarked against the market every year. • Receive meaningful equity in Wayve’s long-term success. • Get relocation support and visa sponsorship where applicable. • Work hybrid with access to vehicle workshops and labs. • Get learning and development support. • Receive comprehensive health, family, pension and wellbeing benefits.

Wayve is building an AI platform for autonomous driving, using an end-to-end approach where vehicles learn directly from real-world experience instead of hand-coded rules or pre-mapped environments. Its mapless, hardware-agnostic AI Driver integrates with global OEM partners and supports automation from L2+ through to L4. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in London, Wayve also has hubs in Sunnyvale, Yokohama, Herzliya, Vancouver and Leonberg.