Artificial Intelligence Jobs

• London
• Hybrid
• Senior
• Permanent

Builds and evolves the data pipeline and orchestration platform behind Wayve's autonomous driving data, revamping the existing Harness system and creating a new DAG-based workflow platform. Works with Python, Airflow/Dagster/Flyte, Ray or Spark and Kubernetes to run hundreds of parallel pipeline steps, batch inference and evaluations reliably at scale.

Harness · Airflow · Dagster +7

• London
• Hybrid
• Lead
• Permanent

Owns the autonomy performance measurement framework for a public-scale robotaxi deployment, defining metrics, dashboards and release gates for an end-to-end learned driving system with no existing playbook. Runs the performance improvement loop across model, robot software, backend and evaluation tooling, leading cross-functional execution without direct reporting authority while staying hands-on in Python, C++ and SQL.

Databricks · Looker · Grafana +1

• London
• Hybrid
• Senior
• Permanent

Train, debug and improve computer vision and 3D perception models for driver assistance, working across the full ML lifecycle from data and training to evaluation and iteration. The role spans latency-constrained on-car perception and large-scale offline work with lidar, maps and 3D reconstruction to build auto-labelling data flywheels.

LiDAR

• London
• Hybrid
• Senior
• Permanent

Lead large-scale data enrichment and curation for the Core Model Safety team, mining hard and rare events and building workflows across pre/mid-training, reward modelling and self-supervised labelling. Design and train out-of-distribution detection mechanisms for robust driverless operation, working at the intersection of model engineering, infrastructure, compute and data.

PyTorch · CUDA

• London
• Hybrid
• Senior
• Permanent

Builds and maintains core C++/Python components that interface self-driving models with vehicle and embedded systems, plus infrastructure to run and test autonomy capabilities. Owns reliability and performance of Linux-based systems and specialises in one domain such as localisation/mapping, filtering/diagnostics or control/inference, in a team scaling to 5-6 engineers.

Linux

• London
• Hybrid
• Lead
• Permanent

Cross-organisational individual contributor defining software architecture as Wayve scales its AI Driver across vehicle platforms, OEM programmes and Robotaxi. Works at the intersection of AI, robotics, computer vision, simulation, training and inference, onboard software and product engineering, setting boundaries, interfaces and abstractions and leading large architectural changes across teams.

• London
• Hybrid
• Senior
• Permanent

Set the technical direction for a petabyte-scale storage platform underpinning autonomous driving data, leading a multi-quarter programme from architecture to adoption. Build production services and controllers in Python or Go with Kubernetes and Terraform, optimising read performance, caching and cost while partnering with ML, data, security and privacy teams.

Kubernetes · Terraform · Azure Blob Storage +4

• London
• Hybrid
• Senior

Builds AI-powered planning systems for global warehouses and last-mile operations, developing machine learning models, optimisation algorithms and operational simulations. Takes high-impact models from prototype to monitored production, sets technical direction and mentors data scientists while working with engineers, product managers and retail partners.

BigQuery · OR-Tools · SimPy

• Purfleet-on-Thames
• On-site
• Shift work

First line of response for engineering faults in an automated Customer Fulfilment Centre, diagnosing and resolving issues that impact performance. Carries out planned servicing and repairs on robotics, AI and IoT-driven equipment, plus proactive reliability improvement projects. Works 12-hour shifts across days, nights and weekends to support a 24/7 operation.

Ocado Smart Platform · Robotics · AI +1

• London
• Hybrid
• Senior

Builds AI-powered planning systems for global warehouses and last-mile operations, developing machine learning models, optimisation algorithms and operational simulations. Takes high-impact models from prototype to monitored production, sets technical direction and mentors data scientists while working with engineers, product managers and retail partners.

BigQuery · OR-Tools · SimPy

• London
• Senior

Owns the core write-path operations for Delta Lake, the open-source storage layer behind the Databricks Lakehouse, driving performance innovations like Low Shuffle Merge and Deletion Vectors. Designs and maintains high-QPS, low-latency backend systems at massive scale, with technical leadership, mentoring and cross-team project planning.

Databricks · Delta Lake · Apache Iceberg +6

• London
• Senior

Founding backend engineer role building Lakebase, a managed Postgres transactional layer for the lakehouse, across teams covering platform reliability, a central control plane, and a high-throughput network proxy handling Postgres, HTTP, WebSockets and Data API traffic. Work spans distributed systems, at-scale service architecture, observability, SLI/SLO definition and AI-powered automation, with services on AWS S3, GCS and Azure Blob Store.

AWS S3 · GCS · Azure Blob Storage +6

• London
• Hybrid
• Senior

Owns the software engineering that brings data science and ML products into live production for the Autoplanner team, building AI-powered planning systems for global warehouses and last-mile assets. Writes typed, well-tested Python (with some Java for OSP integration), builds APIs and data contracts, manages AWS deployments and CI/CD, and packages, serves and monitors ML models. Acts as engineering partner to data scientists and shares on-call duties.

AWS · GCP · Ocado Smart Platform

• London
• Hybrid
• £260,000 – £370,000 pa

Designs and runs machine learning experiments to understand and steer the behaviour of powerful AI systems, with a focus on AI control and alignment stress-testing. Works closely with interpretability, fine-tuning and red-team researchers, building tooling, multi-agent RL experiments and jailbreak evaluations, and contributing to papers and blog posts.

Python · Kubernetes · LLM +1

• London
• Hybrid
• £190,000 – £230,000 pa
• Director · manages people

Lead a team of Technical Deployment Leads embedded with strategic enterprise customers across EMEA, owning portfolio health, delivery strategy and executive relationships. Player-coach role: hire and manage TDLs, run engagement quality reviews, and personally lead the most complex deployments from SOW through production. Partners with Sales, Legal and Product to scale AI delivery playbooks.

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