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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 13 days Wayve's roles stay open a median of 40 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 40% of Wayve's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Wayve
- high 77 stale, 1 reposted of 169 open
- Hiring momentum
- 201 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-09-17
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Wayve's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for Wayve.
About this role
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
- 1/5
- freshness
- 4/5
- career value
- 5/5
- role clarity
- 5/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Wayve as an employer.
What you need
- 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 you get
- Hybrid working policy combining office and remote work.
Worth weighing
- 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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Listed by Wayve on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-09-17. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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