Staff Machine Learning Software Engineer at Wayve

Department: Wayve Labs

Compensation · Listed in posting

$311,000 – $419,000/yr

Setup: Hybrid
Location: Sunnyvale, California
Type: Full-time
Level: staff+
Posted: Sep 18, 2026

Description

Wayve is hiring a founding-member ML Software Engineer for its Multi-Embodiment Generalist Agent (MEGA) team. The role designs and maintains scalable machine-learning pipelines, data and training infrastructure, reusable software abstractions, testing, reliability, and workflows supporting large multimodal datasets and foundation models. The engineer will work closely with researchers and engineers to translate research requirements into practical systems and will own key parts of the MEGA software and ML infrastructure. The position is full-time, hybrid in Sunnyvale, California, with an estimated salary of $311,000 to $419,000 plus equity.

Required Skills

ML pipelines
Distributed training
Software testing
ML frameworks
Data processing
Software architecture

Additional Information

Required Previous Experiences: Building and maintaining machine learning pipelines or infrastructure
Designing reliable, reusable software systems and abstractions
Hands-on experience with modern machine learning frameworks
Software testing, code quality, and shared codebase practices
Working with large datasets, models, and computationally demanding workloads
Collaborating with researchers and engineers
Preferred Qualifications: Distributed training, multi-node systems, or large-scale data processing
Foundation-model training or large-scale ML research
Multimodal, video, or vision-language models
Robotics, embodied AI, simulation, or robot-interaction data
Infrastructure in a fast-moving applied research environment
Improving ML training and experimentation systems
Translation Company Name: Wayve