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Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Search & Index

Wayve
Location
Sunnyvale
Posted
19 days ago
Department
AI Platform
Salary
$311,850 to $350,625
What they actually want (must-haves)
  • 7+ years of experience in backend, infrastructure, or ML systems, building production systems
  • Experience with vector databases or ANN technologies such as FAISS, LanceDB, or similar open-source solutions
  • Strong understanding of multimodal embeddings and experience evaluating search quality across relevance, recall, filtering accuracy, and performance
  • Strong coding skills in Python or other systems languages
  • Experience building search services, APIs, and large-scale ingestion and indexing pipelines
  • Experience delivering 0→1 systems in ambiguous or exploratory problem spaces
Nice to have
  • Experience with large-scale ML pipelines or distributed data infrastructure
  • Familiarity with multimodal data, including video, images, sensor data, and metadata
  • Exposure to active learning, semantic retrieval, or training-data selection workflows
  • Prior experience in autonomy, robotics, or large-scale data infrastructure
  • Experience evaluating technical vendors and working with external technology providers
What the job really is

The Senior Machine Learning Engineer will be part of the Search & Indexing team at Wayve, focusing on making a large corpus of multimodal video data searchable. Responsibilities include building and operating production search and indexing systems, applying embedding models for retrieval, and developing backend services and APIs. The role emphasizes collaboration with various teams to enhance indexing capabilities and deliver an MVP system quickly.

Benefits
  • Competitive equity package
Things to weigh
  • No specific salary details provided beyond a range
  • Role involves working in ambiguity and exploratory problem spaces
  • Focus on delivering an MVP quickly may indicate a fast-paced environment with tight deadlines
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