Principal Machine Learning Engineer GAIA

📋 Description

• Own and lead parts of large-scale training for Gaia (language- or video-style training at scale)
• Contribute to and influence model architecture decisions — not just applying existing models.
• Partner across sub-teams: Research (model development), Applications (adapting models to use
• Translate product and evaluation needs into model improvements (e.g. better long-horizon
• Mentor and set technical direction, raising the engineering and research quality bar across the
• Lead and execute Gaia's post-training and closed-loop pipeline — fine-tuning and aligning the world

🎯 Requirements

• Hands-on experience post-training/fine-tuning large-scale models (language, video, or other
• Experience with world models, autoregressive generation, and long-horizon generation.
• Experience with diffusion/flow models and a solid understanding of 3D vision.
• Strong understanding of model architecture and can contribute meaningfully to
• Strong hands-on engineering skills with modern ML stacks (e.g. PyTorch), including debugging and
• 5+ years of relevant industry experience (advanced degrees are valued, but depth of applied

🎁 Benefits

• Salaries benchmarked against the market annually
• Meaningful equity, sharing in the ownership and long term success of Wayve
• Relocation support and visa sponsorship where applicable
• Hybrid working, core hours and the chance to work hands on in vehicle workshops and labs
• Learning and development budgets with support for training, conferences and growth
• Comprehensive benefits including health insurance, dental, enhanced maternity and paternity leave