Wayve

Staff ML Performance Engineer (Inference Optimisation)

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London, United KingdomStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Profile the full inference stack to identify bottlenecks in model graphs, compilers, runtimes, kernel execution, and memory movement.
  • Implement and validate compiler, runtime, and kernel optimizations, including operator fusion, scheduling, quantization-aware performance improvements, and custom kernels.
  • Build benchmarking and regression testing to validate performance across models, devices, and software releases.
  • Optimize ML inference for NVIDIA Orin/Thor, Qualcomm, edge accelerators, GPUs, and in-vehicle compute.
  • Collaborate with model developers on architecture and training/deployment decisions affecting on-device performance.
  • Contribute to technical roadmaps and tooling, raise performance engineering standards, and help provide technical direction.

Requirements

  • Demonstrated experience improving production-system performance under tight latency, memory, bandwidth, power, thermal, or cost constraints.
  • Strong proficiency with at least one relevant toolchain such as TensorRT, CUDA, Qualcomm QNN, Triton, or OpenCL, with the ability to learn adjacent frameworks.
  • Ability to work across high-level model behavior and low-level kernel/runtime execution.
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals in debugging, profiling, testing, and maintainable code.
  • Clear communication and collaborative stakeholder management around performance trade-offs and priorities.
  • Exposure to embedded or edge ML deployment, benchmarking on real devices, and system-level constraints is desirable.
  • Experience with NVIDIA and/or Qualcomm SoCs and performance tooling is desirable.
  • Python and C++ proficiency is desirable.
  • Experience mentoring others or driving technical direction in a small, fast-moving team is desirable.

Benefits

  • Full-time position based in Wayve’s London office.
  • Hybrid working policy combining office and workshop collaboration with working from home.
  • Inclusive interview experience with accommodations and adjustments available upon request.
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