Roboticist, Robot Foundation Model
Wayve·Sunnyvale, California USA·Remote·Posted 21 October 2026
About the role
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 MEGA Team Multi-Embodiment Generalist Agent (MEGA) team within Wayve Labs as a founding member. MEGA is building foundation models for general-purpose robots beyond self-driving vehicles. Our focus is on creating intelligent agents that can perceive, reason, move and manipulate the physical world across diverse embodiments, including mobile manipulators, dual-arm platforms and humanoids. 🧠 Your day-to-day - You enjoy working hands-on with real robots and are comfortable debugging across hardware, software, and ML systems. - You can move between research exploration and pragmatic engineering execution. - You have strong judgement around experiment design, data quality, and model evaluation. - You communicate clearly across research, engineering, and product teams. - You are excited by 0→1 ownership and ambiguity in a…
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