Josh Waddington
Principal Machine Learning Engineer at Wayve
📍 San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Josh Waddington is a Principal Machine Learning Engineer at Wayve, specializing in end-to-end AI for autonomous vehicles. His career includes experience in Apples Special Projects Group and leading computer vision teams at Oxbotica. He holds a PhD in the field from Cranfield University, underscoring his deep technical expertise.
He was a key contributor to Wayves LINGO-1 model, which generates real-time driving commentary to explain a vehicles actions.
Read the full overview →Experience
7 Years
Current Role
Principal Machine Learning Engineer
Job Level
Middle
Location
San Francisco Bay Area, United States
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Priorities
Topics Josh cares about
Embodied AI
Leads development of AI models at Wayve that learn to drive end-to-end, a core tenet of embodied artificial intelligence.
AI & Language Models
Contributed to Wayve's LINGO-1, a pioneering model that uses language to explain an autonomous vehicle's "thought process" in real-time.
Career
Work history
1-2025
Principal Machine Learning Engineer
Wayve
4-2022 - 12-2024
Senior Software Engineer | Machine Learning
Apple
1-2021 - 4-2022
Technical Lead Manager | Computer Vision & Perception
Oxbotica
5-2018 - 1-2021
Machine Learning Engineer | Perception
Oxbotica
6-2012 - 9-2012
Research Assistant
The University of Sheffield
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Education
2014 - 2018
Doctor of Philosophy
Cranfield University
2013 - 2014
MSc
Cranfield University
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