Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Data Curation & Dataset Strategy

Wayve·Sunnyvale, California USA·Remote·Posted 22 October 2026

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Before the detail, here's the challenge you'd help us solve. We 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. Here’s what this particular role covers. 🛠️ About our datasets Team Wayve's datasets team own the driving data that our AI Driver learns from, covering ingestion, annotation, retrieval and data quality. As our data grows from hundreds of petabytes towards exabyte scale, deciding what we keep, and where, is one of the biggest levers on both model quality and cost. This role sits at the centre of that challenge, shaping the data that model engineers train on across the company. 🧠 Your day-to-day - Build and own the ingestion-time model that scores incoming driving data and routes it to hot, cold, archive or delete - Work with training teams to define the right data distributions for every model we're building - Deliver early storage-cost savings through practical heuristics, then develop ML-driven filtering - Partner with ingestion, annotation, retrieval, data quality, model…

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