Software Engineer - Drive-by-Wire, Robot Software

• Join Wayve’s Platform Integration team within Robot Software as a Software Engineer for Drive-by-Wire, working hybrid from London. • Develop the software that connects Wayve’s AI Driver to a vehicle’s steering, braking and propulsion systems. • Combine embedded software development with hands-on work on benches and real vehicles. • Bring up new vehicle variants and make their drive-by-wire interfaces safe and reliable. • Work with OEMs and drive-by-wire suppliers to define requirements and resolve integration issues. • Build repeatable processes for vehicle validation and handover.

• Bring experience developing embedded software for automotive or robotics systems, including MATLAB/Simulink. • Work directly with embedded hardware or vehicle ECUs, including flashing, calibration and debugging. • Understand vehicle actuation systems and how software, controllers and hardware interact. • Know CAN and CAN-FD, and use tools such as CANoe or CANalyzer to diagnose issues. • Apply functional safety knowledge to software design, fault handling and validation. • Define and document software and interface requirements, and maintain traceability through testing. • Investigate problems across software and hardware, backing conclusions with measurements and tests.

• Bring experience with drive-by-wire systems. • Show experience with ADAS interfaces or HMI integration. • Work with automotive Ethernet. • Bring experience developing or validating OTA updates. • Show experience with hardware-in-the-loop testing. • Write C/C++ or Python for supporting software and tooling.

• Develop and debug embedded software in MATLAB/Simulink, including flashing, configuring and calibrating vehicle controllers. • Integrate steering, braking and propulsion interfaces for new vehicles, from bench testing to validation and handover. • Develop actuation logic, state machines, driver override handling and fault responses. • Build drive-by-wire capabilities such as OTA updates, ADAS interfaces and HMI support. • Measure actuator response, latency and operating limits with controls engineers. • Build automated test suites and simulation and HiL tests that catch regressions and exercise fault conditions. • Investigate vehicle faults using logs, telemetry and vehicle network traces. • Build diagnostic tools and monitoring, and help technicians resolve drive-by-wire issues.

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.