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[/company/wayve](/company/wayve)[Wayve](/company/wayve)
# Machine Learning Scientist/Engineer at Wayve

Department: Wayve Labs

Compensation

$311,450 – $419,760/yr

**Setup**
: Hybrid

**Location**
: Sunnyvale, California

**Type**
: Full-time

**Level**
: staff+

**Posted**
: Oct 2, 2026

## Description

Wayve is hiring a Research Scientist for its Multi-Embodiment Generalist Agent (MEGA) team to help build foundation models for general-purpose robots. The role focuses on model architectures, pre-training and post-training methods, large-scale multimodal datasets, distributed training pipelines, and real-world robot evaluation. It requires experience with multimodal foundation models, scalable training, machine learning research, modern frameworks, and translating research into working systems. The position is a founding-member role with hybrid work across Wayve’s main hubs and benefits including health insurance, dental coverage, equity, relocation support, and visa sponsorship where applicable.

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