Give to Gain: Spotlighting Women at Wayve

First of all, what is your role at Wayve?

Elahe: I lead research across disciplines: world models, language, policy learning and learning efficiency, so we don’t just build powerful components, we build a coherent system that generalizes safely.

Chloé: I’m a Fleet Operations Planning & Delivery Associate. I support our Fleet Ops leadership team in driving clarity, execution and coordination across a fast-moving and complex part of the business. That means aligning operational plans, unblocking delivery and helping bring strategic initiatives to life across teams.

Tova: I design scalable processes that help Product and Engineering operate effectively as we grow. That means building the right infrastructure – tools, workflows, reporting and automation – so teams can focus on solving hard problems instead of navigating friction. A big part of my role is connecting teams and leadership so we stay aligned even as the organization becomes more complex.

Vivian: I’m a software engineer in one of Wayve’s core engineering teams, building the internal systems that power how we develop, test and deploy our driving models. More recently, I had the opportunity to step back and design the “north star” for Wayve’s internal systems, envisioning what a large-scale, robust, globally trusted autonomous vehicle model development and deployment platform should look like. That meant speaking to users across many teams, understanding their workflows and pain points, and aligning technical direction with company priorities. Over my 5 years here, I’ve never stayed in one narrow lane at Wayve and that range has sharpened both my technical depth and systems thinking.

What unique perspective do you bring to Wayve?

Chloé: A different perspective. I’ve worked across a variety of sectors and for different leaders, and that breadth helps me spot patterns and question assumptions. It also means I’m often thinking a few steps ahead about what might not scale.

Vivian: I naturally think about what breaks when things grow: when more vehicles come online, when a new hardware platform is introduced, when the experimentation workflow spans numerous model development teams. I’ve learned to ask uncomfortable but necessary questions, like, “How do we safely deploy different types of models across diverse vehicle platforms?” My unique perspective is a bias toward robust design, building systems that don’t just work now, but continue to work as Wayve scales globally.

Elahe: My unique perspective is leading embodied intelligence from first principles, through a multidisciplinary lens that turns capability into disciplined, reliable learning. The real world is uncertain and constantly changing, so we need models that can reason about situations, adapt safely and improve efficiently under real constraints like compute and latency. That’s why I work across predictive structure, policy learning, language grounding and efficient architectures, paired with rigorous evaluation, so capability becomes dependable behavior.

Tova: Believing that everything is figure-out-able, and that chaos is often just a signal that clarity is waiting to be built. Where others might see complexity, I see an opportunity to create structure, alignment and momentum.

What would you say Wayve has given you the space to explore? How has it helped you grow?

Tova: Wayve has a culture that’s genuinely open to change. People here want to improve how we work, which isn’t always common in scaling companies. I’ve had space to experiment with AI tools, automation and new systems. And the trust to try new ideas that might not be perfect the first time.

Vivian: Wayve has given me space to stretch beyond implementation work. For example, designing systems rather than just maintaining them has been transformative for me. The opportunity to define north-star architecture, instead of only retrofitting existing systems, has helped me grow from a builder into a systems thinker.

Elahe: Wayve gives me a high-trust environment to lead a research portfolio across disciplines and keep a frontier pull on the work, while staying grounded in real-world constraints. That combination, frontier ambition plus operational truth, is the fastest way to grow.

Chloé: Trust. I feel lucky to have the freedom to explore ideas and to be surrounded by colleagues who challenge thinking constructively. That tension sharpens my perspective.