# Principal Roboticist, Robot Foundation Model 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: Principal and up
- Location: Sunnyvale
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-08-10
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://wayve.firststage.co/jobs?gh_jid=8692111002
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/wayve-principal-roboticist-robot-foundation-model/

## About the role

We are looking for a Principal Roboticist to join the Multi-Embodiment Generalist Agent (MEGA) team within Wayve Labs as a founding member. MEGA is building foundation models for general-purpose robots beyond self-driving vehicles. Our focus is on creating intelligent agents that can perceive, reason, move and manipulate the physical world across diverse embodiments, including mobile manipulators, dual-arm platforms and humanoids.

## What they're looking for

- Experience in robot manipulation, working with robot hardware
- Experience leading robotics efforts
- Strong programming experience in C++ and/or Python
- Experience with robot software systems such as control, planning, ROS, or ROS2
- Experience in Machine Learning is welcome, in particular training and deploying learned robot policies
- A track record of high-quality research or engineering work in robotics, embodied AI, or related areas

Tags: Wayve Labs