Staff Machine Learning Engineer - Ops

Job description

About us Founded in 2017, Wayve is the leading developer of Embodied AI technology. Our advanced AI software and foundation models enable vehicles to perceive, understand, and navigate any complex environment, enhancing the usability and safety of automated driving systems. Our vision is to create autonomy that propels the world forward. Our intelligent, mapless, and hardware-agnostic AI products are designed for automakers, accelerating the transition from assisted to automated driving. In our fast-paced environment big problems ignite us—we embrace uncertainty, leaning into complex challenges to unlock groundbreaking solutions. We aim high and stay humble in our pursuit of excellence, constantly learning and evolving as we pave the way for a smarter, safer future. At Wayve, your contributions matter. We value diversity, embrace new perspectives, and foster an inclusive work environment; we back each other to deliver impact. Make Wayve the experience that defines your career! The role Today at Wayve, our model development cycle is composed of multiple complex training phases, each building on the last. As a Staff Machine Learning Engineer (Ops/Release), you are expected to have a deep understanding of each of the training phases, understanding how our models are created from start to finish. You will ultimately be responsible for setting and enforcing the standard of each of the release gates along this journey, ensuring that each training phase is sufficiently validated before the next phase begins. You'll drive technical excellence across our ML delivery pipelines. You'll review release content to ensure it meets our standards, identify bottlenecks in the process, and partner with platform teams to make sure tooling meets our delivery needs. You'll work with CI/CD teams to adapt workflows and streamline model delivery, and with evaluation teams to keep our methods reliable — spotting gaps and driving new methodology for evaluating our models. This is a high-trust, high-visibility role: our release process directly protects our model baseline, and a mistake here has real consequences for how the product performs on-road and how it's perceived externally. Key responsibilities: Collaborate with ML engineers, data engineers and product teams to deliver features end to end. Review release content — model and metric changes, evaluation results — to confirm eve…