Systems Engineer, AI Validation

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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 in 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 dependencies to enable scalable, automated validation execution

Requirements

• ▹5+ years of experience in automated driving, robotics, or a related product
• ▹BSc, MSc, or PhD in Computer Science, Robotics, Aerospace, or related field
• ▹Proficiency in Python to implement metrics and work with the evaluation codebase
• ▹Deep understanding of driving behavior and how to measure driving performance
• ▹Experience with both simulated 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

Nice to have

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

Soft skills

What we offer

• ▹Competitive equity package
• ▹Hybrid working policy with core working hours for flexible scheduling
• ▹Estimated salary range $209,700–$266,800

About the company

Wayve builds embodied AI for the physical world, starting with autonomous driving, pioneering the AV2.0 approach with its GAIA and LINGO foundation model families, tested zero-shot across hundreds of cities.