Embedded Automotive Platforms, Senior Software Engineer

• Join Wayve’s Production Software team as a Senior Software Engineer, working hybrid from London. • Build the core software infrastructure that lets self-driving models interface with vehicles, be tested and run safely in production. • Work on mission-critical, performance-sensitive systems that sit between advanced ML models and embedded vehicle platforms. • Help define foundational components and engineering practices as the team scales to around 5–6 engineers. • Specialise in mapping/navigation, filtering/diagnostics or control/inference while collaborating across domains. • Partner with colleagues across London, Israel and the US.

• Write exceptional, performance-sensitive and production-quality C++ code. • Use strong Python skills for tooling, integration and test infrastructure. • Bring solid Linux experience in development, debugging and operations. • Show familiarity with embedded systems and experience interfacing software with hardware or vehicle systems.

• Bring experience in the automotive industry. • Show domain experience in localisation, navigation and mapping, filtering and diagnostics, or control and inference. • Bring experience shaping foundational components and engineering practices in a growing team. • Show experience working with distributed teams across multiple time zones.

• Design, build and maintain core C++/Python components that interface self-driving models with vehicle and embedded systems. • Build and run infrastructure to communicate with, run and test self-driving capabilities, separate from ML model development. • Own the reliability and performance of key systems across Linux-based environments. • Build tooling and diagnostics for testing and validation. • Partner with teams in London, Israel and the US to integrate changes, resolve cross-team issues and support releases. • Focus on one domain area such as localisation/navigation/mapping, filtering/diagnostics or control/inference.

Wayve is one of the most exciting AI companies in the UK right now. They are tackling one of the hardest problems in technology, teaching machines to drive, and they are doing it with an approach that the rest of the industry is now converging towards. Backed by SoftBank, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Uber, Mercedes-Benz, Nissan, and Stellantis, Wayve has raised $2.8 billion in total funding and reached a valuation of $8.6 billion. With over 1,000 employees across London, Silicon Valley, Vancouver, Leonberg, Herzliya, and Tokyo, Wayve is scaling fast while keeping its London HQ at the centre. What stands out on Glassdoor (4.4/5 from 112+ reviews) is how consistently employees praise the culture, the calibre of colleagues, and the quality of the technical work. People describe it as some of the most interesting work of their careers. Wayve also offers an on-site chef, private healthcare, competitive pay with equity, and a genuine learning environment where you work alongside world-class ML researchers and engineers. That said, some reviews flag that the pace can be intense and that working across global time zones can stretch working hours. If you are an engineer, researcher, or operator who wants to work on genuinely frontier technology with real-world impact, and you thrive in fast-paced, mission-driven environments, Wayve is a rare opportunity.

• Earn a salary benchmarked against the market every year. • Receive meaningful equity in Wayve’s long-term success. • Get relocation support and visa sponsorship where applicable. • Work hybrid with core hours and hands-on time in vehicle workshops and labs. • Use a learning and development budget for training and conferences. • Receive health and dental insurance, a pension and access to therapists. • Enjoy enhanced maternity and paternity leave, wellbeing partnerships and team socials.

Wayve is building an AI platform for autonomous driving, using an end-to-end approach where vehicles learn directly from real-world experience instead of hand-coded rules or pre-mapped environments. Its mapless, hardware-agnostic AI Driver integrates with global OEM partners and supports automation from L2+ through to L4. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in London, Wayve also has hubs in Sunnyvale, Yokohama, Herzliya, Vancouver and Leonberg.