Staff / Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Reinforcement Learning

Wayve·Sunnyvale, California USA·Remote·Posted 5 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 Engineering Teams The Driving Core team develops the learning methods that turn diverse driving data into robust closed-loop behavior. You'll be a technical owner for reinforcement learning within the group, working closely with researchers and engineers across AV Core, Simulation, Evaluation, and Product Engineering. Success means producing measurable improvements in driving behavior. The Core Model Safety team develops the core model competencies that enable safe, driverless operation. In this team, you'll lead the technical direction and delivery of a learned emergency trajectory model for low-frequency, high-consequence manoeuvres such as evasive steering and emergency braking, taking the programme from problem definition through modelling, evaluation, integration, and evidence for deployment. 🧠 Your day-to-day As a Senior /…

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