Systems Engineer, AI Validation

About the role

Wayve’s Engineering Validation team builds confidence in the autonomy systems we deliver to product and customer teams. As a Systems Engineer, you will own a core part of the behavior validation for the Wayve AI Driver, from strategy to implementation and execution. Your contributions will enable the successful integration of the AI Driver across a range of autonomy products. This critical work will help the Wayve AI Driver reach millions of customers globally.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and implement a comprehensive validation strategy across test modalities for multiple autonomy products.
• Define and implement general purpose metrics for validating on-road and simulated driving behavior.
• Define test coverage requirements and build comprehensive test suites.
• Develop acceptance criteria through collaboration with Product, Safety, and AV Engineering teams.
• Analyze test results and report findings to Release and Autonomy Engineering stakeholders.
• Identify data, simulation, and evaluation team dependencies to enable timely, scalable, and automated validation execution.

About You

In order to set you up for success as a Systems Engineer (Senior / Staff), AI Validation at Wayve, we’re looking for the following skills and experience:

• 5+ years of experience working on automated driving, robotics, or related product.
• BSc, MSc, or PhD in Computer Science, Robotics, Aerospace, or a related field.
• Proficiency in Python to implement metrics and work with evaluation codebase.
• Deep understanding of driving behavior and how to measure driving performance.
• Experience with both simulated and and physical testing environments for autonomous systems.
• Experience analyzing and reporting validation results.
• Demonstrated ownership driving validation concepts from ideation to implementation in ambiguous, fast-paced environments.

Desirable:

• Experience with modern AI tools and agentic workflows.
• Experience analyzing large datasets with SQL.

Pay

This is a full-time role based in our office in Sunnyvale and the reasonably estimated salary for this role ranges from $209,700 to $266,800 plus a competitive equity package. Actual compensation is based on the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience.

Schedule

We operate a hybrid working policy that combines time together in our offices and workshops to fuel innovation, culture, relationships and learning, and time spent working from home.