Systems Engineer, AI Validation (Senior / Staff)

Company: Wayve
Location: Sunnyvale, CA (Hybrid)

About Us

Wayve is a leader in Embodied AI technology, developing advanced AI software and foundation models that enable vehicles to perceive, understand, and navigate complex environments safely and effectively. Our vision is to create autonomy that propels the world forward, with intelligent, mapless, and hardware-agnostic AI products designed for automakers to accelerate the transition to automated driving. We thrive in a fast-paced environment, embrace uncertainty, and tackle complex challenges to unlock groundbreaking solutions.

The Role

Join Wayve's Engineering Validation team as a Systems Engineer, where you will own a core part of the behavior validation for the Wayve AI Driver. From strategy to implementation and execution, your contributions will be critical for the successful integration of the AI Driver across various autonomy products, ultimately enabling it to reach millions of customers globally. You will build confidence in the autonomy systems delivered to product and customer teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and implement a comprehensive validation strategy across multiple test modalities for various autonomy products.
• Define and implement general-purpose metrics for validating on-road and simulated driving behavior.
• Define test coverage requirements and build comprehensive test suites.
• Develop acceptance criteria in collaboration with Product, Safety, and AV Engineering teams.
• Analyze test results and report findings to Release and Autonomy Engineering stakeholders.
• Identify dependencies in data, simulation, and evaluation teams to enable timely, scalable, and automated validation execution.

About You

Essential Skills and Experience:

• 5+ years of experience working on automated driving, robotics, or related products.
• BSc, MSc, or PhD in Computer Science, Robotics, Aerospace, or a related field.
• Proficiency in Python for implementing metrics and working with evaluation codebases.
• Deep understanding of driving behavior and methods for measuring driving performance.
• Experience with both simulated and physical testing environments for autonomous systems.
• Experience analyzing and reporting validation results.
• Demonstrated ownership in driving validation concepts from ideation to implementation in ambiguous, fast-paced environments.

Desirable Skills:

• Experience with modern AI tools and agentic workflows.
• Experience analyzing large datasets with SQL.

We encourage you to apply if you are passionate about self-driving cars and believe you can make a positive impact, even if you don't meet every single requirement.

Working at Wayve

• Hybrid Working Policy: Combines in-office collaboration for innovation, culture, and learning with remote work flexibility. Core working hours allow for schedule customization.
• Inclusive Interview Experience: Accommodations are available upon request.
• Commitment to Diversity: Fostering a diverse, fair, and respectful culture. We are an equal employment opportunity employer.

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