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Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Search & Index

Wayve · Sunnyvale · On-site

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About Wayve

Backed by SoftBank VF and Air Street.

About the role

We are hiring a Senior Machine Learning Engineer for our Search & Indexing team, responsible for making Wayve’s massive corpus of multimodal video data discoverable and searchable. This team builds the indexing infrastructure that powers vector-based and metadata-based retrieval - enabling high-leverage workflows across data curation, training set construction and ML research.

What they're looking for

  • Build and operate production search and indexing systems at billion-vector scale
  • Apply and evaluate embedding models for semantic and multimodal retrieval, including inference, normalization, versioning, and integration
  • Build evaluation frameworks to measure retrieval quality, recall, relevance, filtering accuracy, latency, freshness, scalability, and cost
  • Develop backend services and APIs for vector similarity and metadata-filtered search
  • Own search components from design and implementation through deployment and production operations
  • Collaborate with ML, Data, and Evaluation teams to integrate search into training, curation, and evaluation workflows
More about this role

Founded in 2017, Wayve is the leading developer of Embodied AI technology. Our advanced AI software and foundation models enable vehicles to perceive, understand, and navigate any complex environment, enhancing the usability and safety of automated driving systems.

Our vision is to create autonomy that propels the world forward. Our intelligent, mapless, and hardware-agnostic AI products are designed for automakers, accelerating the transition from assisted to automated driving.

In our fast-paced environment big problems ignite us—we embrace uncertainty, leaning into complex challenges to unlock groundbreaking solutions. We aim high and stay humble in our pursuit of excellence, constantly learning and evolving as we pave the way for a smarter, safer future.

At Wayve, your contributions matter. We value diversity, embrace new perspectives, and foster an inclusive work environment; we back each other to deliver impact.

Make Wayve the experience that defines your career!

We are hiring a Senior Machine Learning Engineer for our Search & Indexing team, responsible for making Wayve’s massive corpus of multimodal video data discoverable and searchable. This team builds the indexing...

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