# SWE, Data Ingestion 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: Mid level
- Location: Sunnyvale
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $210K to $250K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-16
- Apply by: 2026-10-31
- Apply: https://wayve.firststage.co/jobs?gh_jid=8809600002
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/wayve-swe-data-ingestion/

## About the role

We are looking for a Data Ingestion Engineer to help build and strengthen the data foundations behind Wayve’s self-driving technology. At Wayve, we do not hand-code cars to drive. We train them to drive from data. That makes data ingestion one of the most important parts of our learning system. The faster, more reliably and more intelligently we can process real-world driving data, the faster we can improve our models and bring embodied AI into the world.

## What they're looking for

- Debug and resolve failing or blocked ingestion pipelines
- Investigate issues caused by corrupt, malformed or unexpected data
- Design and implement more resilient pipelines so individual bad data segments do not block wider workflows
- Improve how we handle varied data formats from partners, suppliers and third-party sources
- Support orchestration across multi-step ingestion workflows, including dependencies, retries and queue management
- Optimise Spark jobs and data-processing pipelines for throughput, compute efficiency and reliability

Tags: AI Platform