Teams at Wayve

Manage Japan-based People Operations across the employee lifecycle, including onboarding, offboarding, HRIS administration, attendance, payroll coordination, tax, social and labour insurance, benefits, health checks, documentation, and compliance. Partner with employees, managers, external providers, and internal teams while improving processes and systems. The role requires fluent Japanese and working English and is based in a hybrid Tokyo office.

As a Staff Machine Learning Engineer, you will lead the development and deployment of AI models for autonomous driving, focusing on safety and reliability. Responsibilities include driving the roadmap, training models, and collaborating across teams.

Lead reinforcement learning development for end-to-end autonomous driving models. Responsibilities include designing offline and off-policy RL methods, improving reward models, building large-scale training and evaluation workflows, diagnosing distribution shift and optimization failures, validating policies through simulation and on-road testing, productionizing successful methods, and mentoring engineers. The role also leads development of learned emergency trajectory models for safety-critical maneuvers such as evasive steering and emergency braking.