Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Wayve

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Python
Scikit-Learn
PyTorch
Senior and Expert level
Vancouver

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2-5 days a week in office

Wayve

Autonomous mobility driven by AI

Open for applications

Wayve

Autonomous mobility driven by AI

201-500 employees

B2CB2BArtificial IntelligenceCarsTransportBig dataDeep TechRoboticsFlexible workingComputer VisionMachine LearningSaaSCloud Computing

Open for applications

Salary not provided
Python
Scikit-Learn
PyTorch
Senior and Expert level
Vancouver

More information about location

2-5 days a week in office

201-500 employees

B2CB2BArtificial IntelligenceCarsTransportBig dataDeep TechRoboticsFlexible workingComputer VisionMachine LearningSaaSCloud Computing

Company mission

To reimagine autonomous mobility through embodied intelligence.

Role

Who you are

  • 5+ years of postgraduate industry experience training and deploying large-scale models on distributed systems
  • Strong foundation in machine learning and deep learning
  • Experience leading a technical/research agenda aligned with larger organisation or company goals
  • Experience bringing research concepts through the full ML development cycle and into production
  • Experience working in a metrics and data driven environment
  • Ability to stay updated with the latest advancements in model efficiency and apply innovative solutions to enhance existing models or develop new efficient architectures
  • Strong programming skills in Python, with experience in deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch, Scikit-learn, TensorRT, or similar tools for model development
  • Strong teamwork and communication skills to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams including engineers, researchers, and product managers

Desirable

  • Advanced knowledge of model compression, quantisation, distillation, parallelism and/or pruning techniques to reduce model size and improve efficiency
  • Understanding of hardware-specific optimizations for inference, such as optimizing models for GPUs, TPUs, or edge devices
  • PhD or MSc in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Robotics, or a related field

What the job involves

  • In this role, you will collaborate closely in our research team to develop, integrate, test, and scale cutting-edge algorithms, tools, and machine learning solutions for autonomous driving
  • Your work will directly contribute to enhancing the efficacy and efficiency of our models, and our iteration speed, bringing innovative research ideas to life faster than ever before
  • You'll be working on some of the world's hardest problems, and able to attack them in new ways
  • You'll be a technical leader within our diverse, cross-disciplinary team, helping teach our robots how to drive safely and comfortably in complex real-world environments.
  • This encompasses many aspects of engineering and optimization across perception, prediction, planning, and control
  • Design and implement end-to-end neural networks and related technologies for autonomous driving applications
  • Work closely in our research team to rapidly prototype and iterate on novel machine learning models
  • Optimize models for efficiency and performance, ensuring they can operate effectively in real-world autonomous driving scenarios
  • Develop and maintain a robust machine learning tools and infrastructure that accelerates the research and development cycle
  • Build metrics and dashboards that give us insight into progress and focus us on solving the right problems
  • Continuously evaluate emerging technologies and methodologies to drive innovation within the team
  • Leverage an analytical approach that encompasses both qualitative and quantitative aspects to deliver results and insights
  • Ensure the maintenance of high-quality training data through the employment of advanced visualization and quantitative analysis techniques
  • Effectively communicate data needs within the team to optimize project success and collaboration
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate machine learning solutions into our autonomous driving platform
  • Contribute to the creation of a collaborative and innovative engineering culture

Our take

Wayve is developing artificial intelligence (AI) that teaches cars to drive autonomously using reinforcement learning, simulation, and computer vision. Wayve’s core premise is that the big breakthrough in self-driving cars will come from better AI brains rather than more sensors or “hand-coded” rules which it believes are highly restrictive and not at all scalable.

The company said that it trains its autonomous driving system using simulated environments and then transfers that knowledge into the real world, where it emulates how humans adapt to conditions in real time. It ultimately relies on end-to-end deep learning AI rather than hard-engineered AI. This is one of the world's hardest problems to solve, but Wayve has made an exciting start and is taking a very different approach to competitors like Uber and Waymo, who are relying more on sensors.

Following a few years of innovative breakthroughs, Wayve now has backing from high-profile investors such as Microsoft and angels, including Uber's chief scientist Zoubin Ghahramani and Pieter Abbeel, a UC Berkeley robotics professor and pioneer of deep reinforcement learning. The company's strategic partnerships with outfits like Asda and Ocado to test-run autonomous deliveries, as well as publicity through the Minister is a show of confidence in the future of Wayve's solution to autonomous driving.

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Insights

Top investors

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28% female employees

24% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)

May 2024

$1.1bn

SERIES C

Jan 2022

$200m

SERIES B

Total funding: $1.3bn

Company benefits

  • Learning budget
  • In-house chef
  • Flexible Working
  • Private health insurance and therapy
  • Workplace nursery scheme
  • Onsite bar
  • Large social budgets
  • Enhanced parental leave

Company values

  • Pave new roads, explore unknown horizons: We take calculated risks and embrace unknown territory
  • Leave positive tracks: A big reason for working on autonomous vehicles is for the positive impact they can have to the environment, the lives they will save, the opportunities they will create for others and more!
  • Autonomous in thought, collective in action: We are built of strong, curious individuals coming from all walks of life, but who, together, want to achieve a common goal.
  • Drive each other forward: We are a company that stands strong upon the foundation which it has created. This foundation is the team, the individuals who make Wayve, Wayve.

Company HQ

London, UK

Leadership

Has a PhD from Cambridge in Computer Vision & Robotics. Previously Research Engineer at Skydio and Advisor to Scape Technologies

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