Radar Lead
Wayve · Sunnyvale, California
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.
The role
As the Radar Lead, you will be a key technical expert within the hardware team, responsible for supporting the integration of high-quality radar sensor data into our driver model. You will be responsible for developing and maintaining a comprehensive understanding of the competitive landscape in automotive radar technologies. You will also create radar data quality guidelines for our product offerings and provide domain expertise in integration, debugging, and testing. Working closely with cross-functional teams, you will help build out test capabilities and enable experiments in collaboration with software and model development teams.
Key responsibilities
- Continuously monitor and analyze advancements in automotive radar technologies and signal processing. Maintain an up-to-date internal knowledge base on the competitive landscape of radar technologies to ensure our software can accommodate the latest developments.
- Develop and enforce guidelines that ensure the radar point clouds and sensor data fed into our models maintain high quality standards. This includes establishing best practices for radar calibration, noise reduction, resolution, and range/velocity accuracy.
- Provide domain expertise for integrating radar sensor data into the AV2.0 driver model. Offer guidance on debugging radar-related issues, ensuring that data from different radar types is appropriately processed and incorporated into the model for optimal results.
- Build and enhance test frameworks to evaluate the impact of different radar inputs on model performance. Work with cross-functional teams to design experiments that assess the effectiveness of radar data under varying conditions (e.g. adverse weather, occlusion, clutter) and optimize data collection strategies.
- Work closely with software and model development teams to ensure radar data is processed and utilized correctly within the driver model. Drive experimentation to identify and implement improvements in radar data handling that positively impact model performance.
About you
Essential:
- Proven experience working with automotive radar technologies and their integration into software-driven systems.
- Experience in radar data quality control, including calibration, resolution, noise handling, and range/velocity/angular accuracy considerations.
- Strong communication and presentation skills.
- Team player effective at cross-functional collaboration with teams of varying technical backgrounds.
- Strong analytical skills and the ability to evaluate the impact of sensor data on model performance.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with a proven ability to work effectively across teams.
Desirable:
- Basic scripting capabilities in python, bash, etc.
- ADAS or Autonomous Vehicle Experience.
Pay Transparency Disclosure
If based in Wayve’s Sunnyvale office, this role has the annual base salary range stated below.
Job level and actual compensation will be decided based on factors including, but not limited to, individual qualifications objectively assessed during the interview process (including skills and prior relevant experience, potential impact, and scope of role), market demands, and specific work location. The listed range is a guideline, and the range for this role may be modified. For roles that are available to be filled remotely, the pay range is localized according to employee work location by a factor of between 80% and 100% of range. Please discuss your specific work location with your recruiter for more information.
Annual Base Salary Range:
$314,700 - $408,100 USD
This is a full-time role based in our office in Sunnyvale. At Wayve we want the best of all worlds so we operate a hybrid working policy that combines time together in our offices and workshops to fuel innovation, culture, relationships and learning, and time spent working from home.
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.