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Autonomous Driving Forensics Engineer

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London

3h ago
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Job Description

Remote

At Wayve we're committed to creating a diverse, fair and respectful culture that is inclusive of everyone based on their unique skills and perspectives, and regardless of sex, race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, pregnancy or related condition  (including breastfeeding) or any other basis as protected by applicable law.  

About us   

Founded in 2017, Wayve is the leading developer of Embodied AI technology.  Our advanced AI software and foundation models enable vehicles to perceive, understand, and navigate any complex environment, enhancing the usability and safety of automated driving systems.

Our vision is to create autonomy that propels the world forward.  Our intelligent, mapless, and hardware-agnostic AI products are designed for automakers, accelerating the transition from assisted to automated driving.  

At Wayve, big problems ignite usβ€”we embrace uncertainty, leaning into complex challenges to unlock groundbreaking solutions. We aim high and stay humble in our pursuit of excellence, constantly learning and evolving as we pave the way for a smarter, safer future.

At Wayve, your contributions matter.  We value diversity, embrace new perspectives, and foster an inclusive work environment; we back each other to deliver impact.  

Make Wayve the experience that defines your career!  

The role 

Impact expected

As a Robot Detective within the Experimentation and Product group, you will focus on investigating overall robot performance in an on road environment. Working closely with the Data Science teams, you will provide actionable insight to development teams based on your knowledge of robotic systems that will help research teams prioritise their efforts today and identify opportunities in the future.

 

Your role will be at the heart of Performance improvement working to identify systemic issues within the full end to end stack for the AV vehicles. To do so you will work cross functionally interacting with all areas of the business including hardware and software engineers, roboticists and platform developers, model development and operational teams. Once root causes have been identified you will work with developers to generate solutions and ensure these deliver the performance improvements expected. 

 

This means you might:

  • Utilise your wide knowledge of robotics and AI to communicate cross-team to identify problems and provide solutions.
  • Prototype methods of analysing data to draw meaningful conclusions for future development.
  • Utilise our video and simulation data to provide evidence based strategy insights that drive model and software performance improvements
  • Troubleshoot technical issues and drive testing to ensure efficient progress through fast iterations.

 

What we are looking for in our candidate

  1. 3+ years experience working with complex systems for robotics..
  2. Excellent critical thinking and problem solving to identify and solve complex issues within the robotics and AI system.
  3. Prior experience of designing real-world robotics experiments to prove/disprove hypotheses.
  4. Great communication skills to be able to explain complex technical problems to technical and  non-technical stakeholders.
  5. Comfortable in using a statistical scripting language and data science/ML packages (e.g. python such as pandas, sklearn, scipy).
  6. Hands-on experience operating in a remote linux environment.
  7. Track record of influencing team and company direction through your findings. 

 

Desired

  • Practical experience with machine learning (e.g. pytorch). 
  • Passion to take research ideas to production.
  • Track record of promoting statistical rigour and experimental best practices in your prior roles.
  • Experience working in a fast-moving tech company or startup.
  • Strong version for python and data scientist.

We understand that everyone has a unique set of skills and experiences and that not everyone will meet all of the requirements listed above. If you’re passionate about self-driving cars and think you have what it takes to make a positive impact on the world, we encourage you to apply.

For more information visit Careers at Wayve. 

To learn more about what drives us, visit Values at Wayve 


DISCLAIMER: We will not ask about marriage or pregnancy, care responsibilities or disabilities in any of our job adverts or interviews. However, we do look to capture information about care responsibilities, and disabilities among other diversity information as part of an optional DEI Monitoring form to help us identify areas of improvement in our hiring process and ensure that the process is inclusive and non-discriminatory.

 

 

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