Staff Robotics Engineer, 3D Sensing

The posting, as Wayve wrote it

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 Robotics Team

The Robotics team is responsible for bridging the gap from our model to our vehicle platforms, in order to let the model focus on making driving decisions. We aim to provide high quality data to the model for making such decisions, whilst abstracting away platform-specific aspects. We combine specialisms across the robotics domain, blending strong theoretical foundations with solid engineering practice to span the spectrum from research to production.

🧠 Your day-to-day

• Define and evolve the technical architecture and roadmap for Wayve’s LiDAR and cross-sensor 3D sensing capabilities, aligned with product and vehicle-programme requirements.
• Lead the development of target-based and targetless LiDAR calibration and registration methods, including LiDAR-to-camera alignment using geometric and learned approaches.
• Develop robust temporal alignment and motion compensation methods using techniques such as LiDAR odometry, nonlinear least-squares optimisation and factor graphs.
• Establish evaluation methodologies and productionise reliable, scalable 3D sensing systems that operate across diverse vehicles, environments and sensor configurations.
• Work with engineering and research teams to deliver end-to-end 3D sensing capabilities, while providing technical leadership and mentorship to other engineers.

🧩 What you’ll be working on

Leading the technical development of our LiDAR and cross-sensor 3D sensing capabilities. You will own the systems used to calibrate, synchronise and align LiDARs with cameras and other vehicle sensors, enabling accurate and reliable 3D data for perception, reconstruction and ground-truth generation.

This is a senior individual-contributor role with responsibility for shaping the architecture and technical roadmap for 3D sensing, while remaining deeply involved in algorithm development, implementation, evaluation and deployment. You will solve challenging problems arising from real sensor systems—including imperfect time synchronisation, rolling-shutter cameras and LiDAR sweep patterns—and develop robust methods that operate across diverse vehicles, environments and operating conditions. You will collaborate broadly across Wayve and provide technical leadership and mentorship across the 3D sensing stack.

🙌 You should apply if you have

Essential

• Significant experience developing robotics or autonomous-driving systems involving LiDAR, cameras and 3D sensor data.
• Strong experience with target-based or targetless sensor calibration and registration, including LiDAR-to-camera alignment.
• Strong understanding of 3D geometry, state es

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📈 Meaningful equity, sharing in the ownership and long term success of Wayve
✈️ Relocation support and visa sponsorship where applicable
✅ Hybrid working, core hours and the chance to work hands on in vehicle workshops and labs
📚 Learning and development budgets with support for training, conferences and growth
🩺 Comprehensive benefits including health insurance, dental, enhanced maternity and paternity leave, retirement or pension where applicable, access to therapists, wellbeing partnerships, team socials and more

A quick, honest note before you apply.

Wayve is not a mature, fully-structured place with the playbook already written. Much of how we work is still being written, and if you join, you’ll help write it. That suits people who want real ownership more than people who need a settled structure from day one.

If that sounds like the kind of problem you want to spend your time on, we’d really like to hear from you.

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