Principal Research Scientist, Robotic Foundation Models

Wayve is seeking a Principal Research Scientist to join the MEGA team, building foundation models for general-purpose robots. You will define the research agenda, set technical strategy, and lead a robotics program from the ground up, working with researchers, ML engineers, and hardware teams to translate theory into real-world robotic capabilities. You will explore vision-language-action models, world and action models, multimodal approaches, and large-scale training, with an emphasis on