# Staff Validation Systems 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: $276K to $303K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-31
- Apply by: 2026-10-15
- Apply: https://wayve.firststage.co/jobs?gh_jid=8766683002
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/wayve-staff-validation-systems-engineer/

## About the role

Wayve’s AI Validation Division builds trust in the Wayve AI Driver for our customers. As a Staff Validation Engineer, you will lead the development, execution, and reporting of validation for L2+ Driving Features. Collaborating with systems engineers and data scientists, you will leverage Wayve’s unique simulation and evaluation technology, and meet emerging AV industry standards as autonomy transitions to fully end-to-end learned models—helping bring the Wayve AI Driver to millions globally.

## What they're looking for

- Develop and implement a comprehensive validation strategy across test modalities to assess L2+ Driving Features that are part of the Wayve AI Driver product
- Define and implement general purpose metrics for validating on-road and simulated driving behavior
- Define test coverage requirements and build comprehensive test suites
- Develop acceptance criteria through collaboration with Product, Safety, and AV Engineering teams
- Analyze test results and report findings to Release and Autonomy Engineering stakeholders
- Identify data, simulation, and evaluation team dependencies to enable timely, scalable, and automated validation execution

Tags: Simulation, Evaluation, Validation