Research Scientist, Robot Foundation Models is open at Wayve in Sunnyvale, California USA (hybrid). The posting gives a salary of $370K - $513K. Posted on Oct 2, 2026, and still on Wayve’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
to work across the entire robot-learning stack: building scalable data flywheels, developing new model architectures and learning algorithms, training large models, designing rigorous evaluations and deploying policies on real robots. Your day-to-day work may span vision-language-action models, world and action models, multimodal and omni models, video generation, reinforcement learning, imitation learning and…
The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on Wayve’s careers page.
Hiring at Wayve
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