Principle Roboticist, Robot Foundation Model

Job summary

Responsibilities

Multi-Embodiment Generalist Agent (MEGA) team within Wayve Labs as a founding member.

• You enjoy working hands-on with real robots and are comfortable debugging across hardware, software, and ML systems.
• You can move between research exploration and pragmatic engineering execution.
• You have strong judgement around experiment design, data quality, and model evaluation.
• You communicate clearly across research, engineering, and product teams.
• You are excited by 0→1 ownership and ambiguity in a fast-moving research environment.

What they're looking for

• Experience in robot manipulation; working with robot hardware.
• Experience leading robotics efforts.
• Strong programming experience in C++ and/or Python.
• Experience with robot software systems such as control, planning, ROS, or ROS2.
• Experience in Machine Learning is welcome, in particular training and deploying learned robot policies.

Tech stack

• C++
• Python