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Vice President, AI Data

Wayve
Location
London; Sunnyvale
Posted
17 days ago
Department
AI Platform
What they actually want (must-haves)
  • Significant engineering leadership experience, with a track record of building and leading high-performing technical organisations.
  • Deep technical expertise in computer vision, video, multimodal AI or related perception problems.
  • Experience leading large-scale data capabilities that directly influence model training, evaluation and performance.
  • Strong intuition for what makes data valuable, with experience in data discovery, selection, curation and enrichment at scale.
  • Strong technical and commercial judgement, including making trade-offs across quality, speed, cost, scale and build-versus-partner decisions.
  • Ability to move between strategy and technical detail, set direction in ambiguity, and influence effectively across senior technical and business stakeholders.
Nice to have
  • Experience in one or more of the following areas: Autonomous driving, robotics or embodied AI.
  • Large-scale video, multimodal or foundation model training.
  • Semantic search, embeddings, active learning, auto-labelling or other approaches to intelligent data selection and enrichment.
  • Large-scale real-world data acquisition across fleets, customers, partners or multiple geographies.
What the job really is

The Vice President of AI Data at Wayve will lead the data strategy for their autonomous driving technology, focusing on how data can enhance AI model performance. This role involves determining data needs, acquisition methods, and developing strategies for data discovery and enrichment. The VP will also manage a multidisciplinary data organization and collaborate with various teams to ensure data investments align with model performance improvements.

Benefits
  • Hybrid working policy combining office and remote work.
Things to weigh
  • No salary or specific benefits listed in the posting.
  • The role requires navigating ambiguity and making decisions without perfect information, which may be challenging for some candidates.
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