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Lead the development, execution, and reporting of validation strategies for L2+ driving features within the Wayve AI Driver product. Collaborate with cross-functional teams including product, safety, and autonomy engineering to define test coverage and acceptance criteria.
Requires a degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Aerospace, or a related field along with hands-on experience in evaluating complex engineered systems. Proficiency in Python and experience in autonomous driving or robotics are essential for this 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.
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.
Collaborate closely with Product, Architecture, Data, Simulation, and Autonomy leads to design and implement comprehensive yet efficient test strategies.
To succeed as a Validation Systems Engineer at Wayve, you’ll bring the following skills and experience:
Clear, concise communicator with excellent documentation skills.
Strong analytical skills with experience in evidence-based decision-making.
Hands-on experience evaluating and validating complex engineered systems — whether through simulated scenario development, real-world testing, or both.
Experience working in autonomy for driving, robotics, or related products.
Proficiency in Python to implement metrics and work with evaluation codebase.
Experience with both simulated and physical testing environments for autonomous systems.
Experience analyzing and reporting validation results.
Demonstrated ownership driving validation concepts from ideation to implementation in ambiguous, fast-paced environments.
Degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Aerospace, or a related field.
Background in ML, Computer Vision, Motion Planning, or Data Science.
Experience working in autonomy for driving, robotics, or related products.
Experience with SOTIF and safety validation.
Skilled in evaluating and validating learned or adaptive behaviors.
Experience with modern AI tools and agentic workflows
Experience analyzing large datasets with SQL
Deep understanding of driving behavior and how to measure driving performance.
This is a full-time role based in our office in Sunnyvale, CA. At Wayve we want the best of all worlds so we operate a hybrid working policy that combines time together in our offices and workshops to fuel innovation, culture, relationships and learning, and time spent working from home. The reasonably estimated salary for this role ranges from $276,100-$303,000, plus a competitive equity package. Actual compensation is based on the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience.
At Wayve, we’re building a global driving intelligence that learns from data and scales across different vehicles and geographies. Founded in 2017, we have pioneered an end-to-end AI approach to autonomous driving that is faster to deploy, more flexible by design and built to scale. We deliver all levels of autonomy, from hands-off and eyes-off driving, to robotaxis. We license and integrate the Wayve AI Driver as a vehicle-agnostic software platform that runs entirely on onboard vehicle compute and native sensors. Wayve is the first and only AV company to test a single global AI Driver model across more than 500 cities in Europe, North America and Japan. We’re building autonomy for anyone, in any vehicle, anywhere.
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