Vice President, AI Data

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About the role

Before the detail, here's the challenge you'd help us solve. We build the embodied intelligence that moves real vehicles safely, and the ecosystem a billion machines will run on in the future. Very few people in AI can say this. Every role here, whatever the team, plugs into that. Here’s what this particular role covers. About us Founded in 2017, Wayve is the leading developer of Embodied AI technology. Our advanced AI software and foundation models enable vehicles to perceive, understand, and navigate any complex environment, enhancing the usability and safety of automated driving systems. Our vision is to create autonomy that propels the world forward. Our intelligent, mapless, and hardware-agnostic AI products are designed for automakers, accelerating the transition from assisted to automated driving. In our fast-paced environment big problems ignite us—we embrace uncertainty, leaning into complex challenges to unlock groundbreaking solutions. We aim high and stay humble in our pursuit of excellence, constantly learning and evolving as we pave the way for a smarter, safer future. The role At Wayve, we are building AI that learns to drive from experience. We do not hand-code cars to drive. We train our models from data gathered across the real world, making our ability to identify, understand and learn from the right data fundamental to everything we build. We are looking for a VP of Data to lead the data strategy behind our autonomous driving technology. This is a senior engineering leadership role with end-to-end ownership of how Wayve uses data to improve our AI. You will determine what data we need, how we acquire it, how we understand and enrich it, and ultimately how we turn it into measurable improvements in model performance. The scale and shape of the problem is unique. Our data comes from our own vehicles, OEM programmes, partners and external sources, spanning different vehicles, sensors, markets and driving environments. Within that corpus, the most valuable examples are often the hardest to find: rare behaviours, unusual interactions, safety-critical events and the long tail of real-world driving. Your job is not simply to build the systems that process this data. It is to decide what data matters and why, and build the strategy, organisation and learning loop that allows Wayve to learn from it faster. You will lead Wayve’s Data organisation and provide senior ownership for data within Engineering, partnering closely across AI, Science, Validation, Product, Compute and our commercial teams. Key Responsibilities • Own Wayve’s data strategy: Set the strategy across the complete AI learning cycle, determining what data we need and how it should drive model performance, from foundation model training through specialised driving capabilities and production programmes. • Build the data flywheel: Own the learning loop from real-world signals and model behaviour through data discovery, curation and enrichment into training, evaluation, deployment and measurement. • Find the data that matters: Develop intelligent approaches to discovering rare, surprising and safety-critical scenarios within extremely large datasets, using techniques such as embeddings, semantic search, learned representations and model-driven data selection. • Lead data acquisition and enrichment: Define how Wayve collects, buys, generates and enriches data across our own fleet, OEM programmes, partners and external sources, balancing coverage, quality, speed and economics. • Connect data investment to model performance: Establish how we measure the value of data and make rigorous trade-offs across quality, accuracy, speed, cost and scale, ensuring investment is focused where it creates the greatest impact. • Scale our data strategy globally: Buil

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