# Machine Learning Engineer, Compiler at Wayve

- Company: Wayve
- What the company does: Backed by SoftBank VF and Air Street.
- Company website: https://wayve.ai/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: London; Sunnyvale
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-09-15
- Apply by: 2026-10-30
- Apply: https://wayve.firststage.co/jobs?gh_jid=8752478002
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/wayve-machine-learning-engineer-compiler/

## About the role

Wayve is building autonomous driving technology that runs on real vehicles. Getting our models onto embedded hardware — correctly, quickly, and reproducibly — is one of the hardest problems between research and product.

## What they're looking for

- You have built or significantly extended ML compilation or graph-lowering pipelines
- You understand multi-stage lowering (capture, decomposition, precision assignment, legalisation) and can debug what breaks at each stage
- Strong proficiency with at least one relevant stack (e.g. MLIR, ONNX, TensorRT, Qualcomm QNN, PyTorch export/capture) and confidence learning adjacent frameworks quickly
- Experience with quantisation in compilation — precision typing, PTQ integration, and tracking down accuracy loss from compiler transforms
- Comfortable from high-level model graphs down to vendor backend constraints, strong Python, with C++ a plus
- Clear communicator who can align cross-functional teams on compilation trade-offs

Tags: AI Platform