Software Engineer, Data Ingestion
Wayve·Sunnyvale, California USA·Remote·Posted 2 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 Ingestion Systems Team Our Ingestion Systems team sits within Wayve’s AI Platform organisation and builds the data foundations behind our self-driving technology. We process vast amounts of real-world driving data so it can be used for annotation, model training and evaluation. Operating at petabyte scale, the team focuses on making these critical data flows reliable, efficient and easy to operate. 🧠 Your day-to-day - Debug and unblock failing ingestion pipelines, stalled jobs and processing queues - Investigate corrupt, malformed or unexpected data from a variety of sources. - Optimise Spark jobs and batch-processing pipelines for throughput, reliability and compute efficiency. - Design and implement more resilient pipelines so individual bad data segments do not block wider workflows. - Improve monitoring, retries and failure…
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