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Wayve is building an end-to-end AI platform for autonomous driving that enables vehicles to learn from real-world experience. The company is pioneering a mapless, hardware-agnostic approach integrated with global OEM partners to unlock advanced levels of automation from L2+ through L4.
The AI Validation team develops the strategies, evidence, metrics, and test systems that build confidence in the Wayve AI Driver. This Staff-level role focuses primarily on ADAS and L2 autonomy functions, working closely with automotive and OEM expectations, including product, customer, safety, and regulatory requirements. The role can be structured as either a TC4 individual contributor (Staff IC) or an M4 manager with responsibility for technical direction and team delivery.
Day-to-day responsibilities include:
- Translating product, systems, and safety requirements into validation strategies, test scenarios, metrics, coverage requirements, and acceptance criteria
- Working hands-on with Python, evaluation pipelines, test implementation, simulation, and data analysis
- Analyzing results and communicating findings, risks, and evidence to Product, Safety, Release, and Autonomy Engineering stakeholders
- Coordinating data, simulation, and evaluation dependencies to ensure validation runs reliably and at scale
- Developing comprehensive verification strategies for ADAS and L2 autonomy functions
- Translating customer, OEM, safety, and regulatory expectations into practical validation evidence
- Building test suites spanning simulation and physical testing environments
- For M4 scope: providing people leadership and coordinating validation delivery across the team; for TC4 scope: providing senior technical ownership as an individual contributor
Key focus areas include ADAS functions such as lane keeping and assisted-driving capabilities, validation strategies aligned with automotive OEM development and SOTIF standards, simulated and physical test environments, and Python-based evaluation tooling with SQL and scalable data analysis.
The role is based in London and operates on a hybrid model combining in-person collaboration in offices and workshops with focused remote work time. Wayve offers market-benchmarked salaries, meaningful equity, relocation support and visa sponsorship where applicable, comprehensive location-dependent health and wellbeing benefits, and learning and development support.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Understanding of how automotive companies and OEMs develop and validate ADAS or L2 autonomy products
- Ability to translate customer, safety, regulatory, and product expectations into structured validation strategies
- Hands-on experience building scenarios, metrics, test suites, evaluation pipelines, or data-analysis workflows
- Professional proficiency with Python and comfort with SQL or similar large-scale analysis tools
- Experience validating complex systems in simulation, the real world, or both
- Clear communication skills, strong documentation practices, and ability to own ambiguous problems from concept through evidence and recommendation
- Advantageous: ML, computer vision, motion planning, SOTIF, safety validation, or modern AI-tooling experience
- For M4 scope: experience leading people or coordinating a validation function; for TC4 scope: strong senior individual-contributor ownership
The company notes that not every requirement must be met—passionate candidates keen to learn in autonomy are encouraged to apply.
