Applied Scientist, Behaviors and Language

Who We Are

At Wayve, we are pioneers in the deployment of autonomous vehicles on public roads, powered by cutting-edge end-to-end deep learning, computer vision, and reinforcement learning. Our team of world-class, multi-national researchers and engineers use data-driven strategies to develop intelligent algorithms that democratize autonomy for everyone, everywhere. We're at the forefront of the future of self-driving cars, continually learning from experience and data.

Your Impact

We are actively seeking experts with research experience in AI applied to autonomous driving, robotics, or decision-making domains. Your expertise can be in, but is not limited to, the following areas:

• Foundation models for robotics
• Model-free and model-based reinforcement learning
• Offline reinforcement learning
• Large language models
• Planning with learned models, model predictive control, and tree search
• Imitation learning, inverse reinforcement learning, and causal inference
• Learned agent models: behavioral and physical models of cars, people, and other dynamic agents

Join our diverse, cross-disciplinary team to tackle some of the world's most challenging problems and help our robots drive safely and comfortably in complex real-world environments. Your tasks will include:

• Leveraging our extensive, diverse sources of real-world driving data
• Architecting models to employ the latest advances in foundation models, transformers, and world models
• Selecting appropriate learning algorithms, such as reinforcement learning and behavioral cloning
• Utilizing simulation for controlled experimental insights, training data augmentation, and re-simulation
• Scaling models efficiently across data sets, model sizes, and compute while ensuring efficient deployment on vehicles

Additionally, you will have opportunities to contribute to high-impact academic publications for top-tier conferences like NeurIPS, CVPR, ICRA, ICLR, and CoRL, working with a world-class team to achieve these goals.

What You’ll Bring to Wayve

We are looking for candidates who possess:

• 5+ years of applied experience in AI research, computer vision, deep learning, reinforcement learning, or robotics
• Proficiency in delivering high-quality code and familiarity with deep learning frameworks (Python and Pytorch preferred)
• Experience in leading research agendas aligned with larger organizational goals
• Experience in deep learning, software engineering, automotive, or robotics sectors
• Skilled in working with training data, metrics, visualization tools, and in-depth result analysis
• Capability to understand, author, and critique cutting-edge research papers
• Knowledge of code-reviewing, C++, Linux, and Git is advantageous
• A PhD in a relevant area and/or a proven track record of delivering value through machine learning is highly desirable

What We Offer You

Joining Wayve means benefiting from:

• Competitive compensation including salary and equity
• An opportunity to work with a team of world-class researchers, engineers, and entrepreneurs
• A unique position where you can shape the future of autonomy and tackle significant challenges
• Tailored learning and development opportunities
• Support for relocation and visa sponsorship
• Flexible working hours to fit your lifestyle
• Comprehensive benefits such as an onsite chef, workplace nursery scheme, private health insurance, therapy, daily yoga, onsite bar, substantial social budgets, unlimited learning and development requests, enhanced parental leave, and more!

At Wayve, we celebrate diversity. We believe that our differences make us stronger and that our unique perspectives and backgrounds allow us to build something extraordinary. We're proud to be an equal opportunities workplace, where we don't just embrace diversity but nurture it so we all thrive and grow.

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