# Staff Machine Learning Scientist/Engineer 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: $370K to $419K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-15
- Apply by: 2026-10-30
- Apply: https://wayve.firststage.co/jobs?gh_jid=8810746002
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/wayve-staff-machine-learning-scientist-engineer/

## About the role

We are looking for a Research Scientist to join the Multi-Embodiment Generalist Agent (MEGA) team within Wayve Science as a founding member. MEGA is building foundation models for general-purpose robots: models that learn from large-scale video, language, and robot-interaction data, then generalize across tasks and embodiments—including mobile manipulators, dual-arm platforms, and humanoids. Our aim is to build agents that can perceive, reason about, and act reliably in the physical world.

## What they're looking for

- Research and develop model architectures, learning objectives, and data strategies for robot foundation models
- Empirical research experience – experience hill climbing on ML models
- Experience with various data sources – annotation, filtering, mixing strategies
- Develop scalable self-supervised and generative pre-training methods using web video, egocentric video, and robot-interaction data
- Develop post-training approaches—including supervised fine-tuning, imitation learning, reinforcement learning, and related methods—to improve real-world robot capabilities
- Curate, filter, and evaluate large-scale robotics datasets, including egocentric, UMI, and teleoperated data

Tags: Wayve Labs