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Wayve Salaries

Live base-salary benchmarks from Wayve's currently open roles.

68 openings with posted pay · Updated Sep 5, 2026

Median base salary

$288k

Posted range midpoint

Typical range

$223k–$335k

25th to 75th percentile

Openings with pay

68

41% of 164 live openings

Companies disclosing

1

From their own postings

Annual base salary in USD. Equity and bonus excluded.

Highest-paying live openings

Sorted by posted range
1
Director AV Product Engineering

Wayve · United Kingdom · Director

$440k–$580k
2
Principal Research Scientist, Robot Foundation Model

Wayve · Sunnyvale, CA · Staff / Principal

$407k–$512k
3
Principal Machine Learning Engineer, Geometric Vision

Wayve · Sunnyvale, CA · Staff / Principal

$407k–$460k
4
Principal Engineer, Embedded Vehicle Software

Wayve · Sunnyvale, CA · Staff / Principal

$348k–$458k
5
Principal Safety Case Engineer

Wayve · Sunnyvale, CA · Staff / Principal

$290k–$426k
6
Research Scientist, Robot Foundation Model

Wayve · Sunnyvale, CA · Mid-Level

$370k–$419k
7
Principal Engineer, Data & Compute

Wayve · Sunnyvale, CA · Staff / Principal

$370k–$418k
8$332k–$415k
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Methodology

BuildList pulls salary ranges from company applicant tracking systems hourly. Nothing is self-reported or estimated.

Non-USD pay is converted to USD, and hourly, weekly, and monthly pay is annualized. Figures are medians and quartiles of each posting's range midpoint, weighted by currently open roles.

Base salary only. Equity and bonus are excluded. Groups with fewer than 30 salaried openings are withheld.

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