Principal Research Scientist, Robot Foundation Models at Wayve
- Company: Wayve
- Location: Remote / Sunnyvale, California USA
- Employment type: Full-time
- Salary: $370,040 – $512,710 • Offers Equity
- Posted: 2026-10-02
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 our Science Teams We are looking for a Principal Research Scientist to join the Multi-Embodiment Generalist Agent (MEGA) team within Wayve Science as a founding member. MEGA is building foundation models for general-purpose robots beyond self-driving vehicles. Our focus is on creating intelligent agents that can perceive, reason, move and manipulate the physical world across diverse embodiments, including mobile manipulators, dual-arm platforms and humanoids. This is a senior, high-impact role with genuine 0-to-1 ownership.…
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