# Machine Learning Engineer, Performance Tooling 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: 2026-08-31
- Apply by: 2026-10-15
- Apply: https://wayve.firststage.co/jobs?gh_jid=8763509002
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/wayve-machine-learning-engineer-performance-tooling/

## About the role

You’ll join the AI Performance Tooling team within Wayve’s AI Performance organization, which makes model training and inference faster, more efficient, and more predictable across cloud and embedded hardware. Our mission is to enable data-driven AI performance decisions across priority workloads and hardware targets: Measure performance teams can trust; Monitor trends and catch regressions; Predict the cost of changes before we run them; Advise on bottlenecks and prioritized opportunities.

## What they're looking for

- Design and build reliable, self-service performance tools that scale across models, hardware targets, and development workflows
- Shape how Wayve measures and predicts AI performance, and set the standards other teams build on
- Model theoretical peak for a platform, compare with achieved performance, and pinpoint where efficiency is lost at layer and op level
- Predict latency, memory, utilization, and compute cost of a model or recipe change before spending compute
- Own monitoring and regression alerting across model builds and training runs
- Work with training and runtime engineers to set performance targets and make the case with data

Tags: AI Platform