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Principal Research Scientist, Robot Foundation Model

About us Founded in 2017, Wayve is the leading developer of Embodied AI technology. Our advanced AI software and foundation models enable vehicles to perceive, understand, and navigate any complex environment, enhancing the usability and sa

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Company

Wayve

Location

Sunnyvale

Status

Open

Posted

2026-08-06T09:23:33+00:00

Wayve is hiring a principal research scientist to be a founding member of MEGA, a team building foundation models for general-purpose robots beyond self-driving, spanning mobile manipulators, dual-arm platforms and humanoids. The work covers vision-language-action models, world and action models, video generation, reinforcement learning and imitation learning, plus large-scale video datasets, distributed training and evaluations on real robots. The posting asks for deep machine-learning experience, a publication record at venues like CoRL and NeurIPS, scalable-training experience and strong coding. A PhD and 5+ years of industry experience are listed as desirable.