# Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Search & Index 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: Senior
- Location: Sunnyvale
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $312K to $351K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-01
- Apply by: 2026-10-16
- Apply: https://wayve.firststage.co/jobs?gh_jid=8755425002
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/wayve-senior-machine-learning-engineer-search-and-index/

## 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

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