The impact you will have

Wayve is looking for an experienced business development professional to join our Automotive Partnerships Team, forging innovative first-of-kind collaborations with global automakers and tier one suppliers on the path to fully autonomous driving. You will be responsible for all aspects of the engagement from strategic research, initial outreach, technical evaluation, deal structuring, negotiation, contract execution, testing and validation, and end-to-end program management.

What you’ll bring to Wayve

Given the small size of the team, you will be expected to run your own deals with minimal supervision, and we are therefore looking for a conscientious self-starter who is used to managing competing objectives under pressure.

Essential

• 7 years' experience in business roles in the automotive industry (OEM or tier one or two suppliers), with a portion focused on an autonomous mobility/ADAS related field
• Experience with automotive related contracts.
• Strong technical, drafting, research, and negotiation skills
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills and an ability to explain complex matters in clear, accessible language
• Strong commercial/business acumen and judgment to allow effective negotiation of deal terms in the context of the wider commercial strategy
• Ability to work autonomously, take initiative and be proactive in addressing new matters or challenges
• Well-developed prioritization skills and ability to deal with multiple projects and internal clients
• Strong emotional intelligence and ability to collaborate with colleagues across teams, time zones, and business cultures

Desired

• Deep understanding of emerging Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning systems
• Education: BS or MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or similar experience.

This is our ideal candidate, but by no means the only candidate; we all have different strengths. If you don’t match 100% but believe you could do the job well, we would love to hear from you.

This is an exciting opportunity to work at the forefront of emerging technology and shape the future of transportation. If you have a passion for technology and are looking for a challenging and rewarding career in a fast-paced, high-growth environment, we would love to hear from you.

What we offer:

• Competitive compensation with salary and equity
• Immersion in a team of world-class researchers, engineers and entrepreneurs
• A unique position to shape the future of autonomy and tackle one of the biggest challenges of our time
• Bespoke learning and development opportunities
• Flexible working hours - we trust you to do your job well, at times that suit you and your team
• Private onsite chef, in-house bar, lots of socials, and more!

Wayve is built by people from all walks of life. We believe that it is our differences that make us stronger, and our unique perspectives and backgrounds that allow us to build something different. We are proud to be an equal opportunities workplace, where we don’t just embrace diversity but nurture it - so that we all thrive and grow.

This is not a small feat but thanks to our end-to-end deep learning approach, we are confident we can achieve it. With great challenges come great responsibilities; the safety assurance of our automated driving system (ADS) is the most important and most complex one.

If you are looking at putting your safety skills to the test, there is no better place to be than at Wayve. Please join our safety team to design and orchestrate our L4 ADS safety assurance framework!

Your Responsibilities

In collaboration with the other safety expert(s):

• Conduct safety analyses, such as SOTIF and STPA, literature reviews and brainstorm sessions to identify the risks, functional insufficiency and triggering conditions of Wayve’s ADS;
• Define SOTIF acceptance criteria and design strategies for the verification and validation of Wayve’s ADS;
• Work collaboratively with Wayve’s driving intelligence team to define the most appropriate architectural and development measures to ensure ADS’ performance and safety prior to, and, after deployment;
• Contribute to the design, implementation and validation of Wayve safety assurance framework for its L4 ADS;
• Support the functional safety activities about Wayve’s ADS, and its integration into present and future vehicle platforms, or the integration of third party safety-critical systems.

Your Skills

Mandatory:

• Very good understanding of the SOTIF development process as per ISO 21448 with a minimum 3 year experience in applying the standard on different ADS systems;in particular:
• strong confidence in conducting risk assessments, the identification of potential triggering conditions and the design of methods to uncover unknown unsafe scenarios;
• good understanding of safe design principles, and the capabilities and limitations of various sensory modalities;
• good knowledge of various L3 or L4 ADS architectures, their benefits and shortcomings;
• experience in defining SOTIF performance requirements and working with various design teams to achieve them;
• StrongGood knowledge of ISO 26262:2018 with and a minimum 5 year experience in applying the parts 2..6, 8 and 9 on a variety of vehicle systems.

Desirable

• Practical experience in conducting SOTIF verification in various test environments (simulation, proving grounds, public roads).
• Expertise in ISO 26262-6; the candidate must have practical experience in developing or leading the development of ISO 26262 compliant production software and in the qualification of software tools.
• Experience in managing suppliers of safety related hardware or software elements (DIA design, supplier audit and assessment, project management)).
• Knowledge and experience in developing the safety case of an AD systems, in particular:
• Experience in developing the safety concept for a computer vision based system
• Sufficient knowledge of neural networks (architectures, algorithms, training and testing pipeline) to understand the challenges associated with the safety assurance of such systems and discuss options and rationales with our scientists
• Operational safety experience, such as identifying the operational risks and designing training and operational procedures to ensure the safety of testing on public roads, is a plus.

About you

• You are truly passionate about Safety and making the world a safer place your mission; this is reflected in the way you choose terms appropriate to your audience, present the essence of system safety and formulate the key takeaway messages.
• You are pragmatic, you understand the need to balance risk versus benefits, even more so in a startup environment.
• You are comfortable in debating with other stakeholders safety-related trade-offs, at any level of the development process and at any level of the organisation.
• You are self-starter, autonomous in thoughts but collective in action.
• You are able to think and work at various abstraction level; thinking “blue sky” and paving the way for long term safety goals, or diving deep into technical details to provide clear guidance and solutions on the safety activities for the development of a subsystem (e.g. controller) or launching an application (robotaxi)
• You are confident in challenging others’ ideas and views, but equally, are open to constructive criticism and able to reconsider your opinions or beliefs.

What we offer you

• Attractive compensation with salary and equity
• Immersion in a team of world-class researchers, engineers and entrepreneurs
• A unique position to shape the future of autonomous driving and tackle the biggest challenge of our time
• Bespoke learning and development opportunities
• Relocation support with visa sponsorship
• Flexible working hours - we trust you to do your job well, at times that suit you and your team
• Private onsite chef, in-house bar, lots of socials, and more!

Wayve is built by people from all walks of life. We believe that it is our differences that make us stronger, and our unique perspectives and backgrounds that allow us to build something different. We are proud to be an equal opportunities workplace, where we don’t just embrace diversity but nurture it - so that we all thrive and grow.

Where you’ll have an impact

We are looking for an experienced sensor engineer to develop and improve our self-driving-vehicle sensor suite. You will reach across teams and offices to execute challenging cross-functional tasks. As a key member of the hardware sensors team you will offer domain expertise and support for integration, debugging, and testing. You will build up key sensor test capabilities through equipment and software development. Your contributions will identify performance gaps and enable ongoing optimization of our sensing system.

What you’ll bring to Wayve:

Essential:

• Strong communication and presentation skills
• Team player effective at cross-functional collaboration with teams of varying technical backgrounds
• Working knowledge of cameras and/or radar
• Proficiency in debugging & root cause analysis
• Experience in novel test development and execution

Desirable:

• Basic scripting capabilities in python, bash, etc.
• Software knowledge/experience in debugging
• ADAS or Autonomous Vehicle Experience

What we offer you

• Attractive compensation with salary and equity
• Immersion in a team of world-class researchers, engineers and entrepreneurs
• A unique position to shape the future of autonomous driving and tackle the biggest challenge of our time
• Bespoke learning and development opportunities
• Flexible working hours - we trust you to do your job well, at times that suit you and your team

Where you’ll have an impact

We’re looking for bold, talented and creative people to join our journey in developing next-generation autonomous vehicles. We’re a growing start-up building our first cohort of engineers, and you can be at the heart of this!

We are looking for an experienced Research Engineer to help us in our journey to scale end-to-end neural networks for autonomous driving. You’ll be working across our research team to build, integrate, test and scale algorithms, tools, and machine learning solutions for autonomous driving.

What you’ll bring to Wayve

• 5+ years of software engineering experience in an industrial research environment
• Passion to work in a team on research ideas that have real world impact
• Strong software engineering experience in Python and other relevant languages (especially C++ and CUDA)
• Ideally with direct experience working in at least one of computer vision, robotics, simulation, graphics, large language models
• Ideally with several years working on large-scale machine learning algorithms and systems
• BS, MS, or above in Machine Learning, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline or equivalent experience

What we offer you

• Attractive compensation with salary and equity
• Immersion in a team of world-class researchers, engineers and entrepreneurs
• A unique position to shape the future of autonomy and tackle the biggest challenge of our time
• Bespoke learning and development opportunities
• Relocation support with visa sponsorship
• Flexible working hours - we trust you to do your job well, at times that suit you and your time
• Benefits such as an onsite chef, workplace nursery scheme, private health insurance, therapy, daily yoga, onsite bar, large social budgets, unlimited L&D requests, enhanced parental leave, and more!

Wayve is built by people from all walks of life. We believe that it is our differences that make us stronger, and our unique perspectives and backgrounds that allow us to build something different. We are proud to be an equal opportunities workplace, where we don’t just embrace diversity but nurture it - so that we all thrive and grow.

Where you’ll have an impact

We are currently looking for people with research expertise in AI applied to autonomous driving or similar robotics or decision making domain, inclusive, but not limited to the following specific areas:

• Foundation models for robotics
• Model-free and model-based reinforcement learning
• Offline reinforcement learning
• Large language models
• Planning with learned models, model predictive control and tree search
• Imitation learning, inverse reinforcement learning and causal inference
• Learned agent models: behavioral and physical models of cars, people, and other dynamic agents

You'll be working on some of the world's hardest problems, and able to attack them in new ways. You'll be a key member of our diverse, cross-disciplinary team, helping teach our robots how to drive safely and comfortably in complex real-world environments. This encompasses many aspects of research across perception, prediction, planning, and control, including:

• How to leverage our large, rich, and diverse sources of real-world driving data
• How to architect our models to best employ the latest advances in foundation models, transformers, world models, etc.
• Which learning algorithms to use (e.g. reinforcement learning, behavioural cloning)
• How to leverage simulation for controlled experimental insight, training data augmentation, and re-simulation
• How to scale models efficiently across data, model size, and compute, while maintaining efficient deployment on the car

As a Principal Scientist, you’ll be expected to contribute actively to the Science leadership team, inclusive of proposing new projects, organising their work, and delivering substantial impact across Wayve.

You also have the potential to contribute to academic publications for top-tier conferences like NeurIPS, CVPR, ICRA, ICLR, CoRL etc. working in a world-class team to achieve this.

What you’ll bring to Wayve

• Thorough knowledge of and 5+ years applied experience in AI research, computer vision, deep learning, reinforcement learning or robotics
• Ability to deliver high quality code and familiarity with deep learning frameworks (Python and Pytorch preferred)
• Experience leading a research agenda aligned with larger goals
• Industrial and / or academic experience in deep learning, software engineering, automotive or robotics
• Experience working with training data, metrics, visualisation tools, and in-depth analysis of results
  
• Ability to understand, author and critique cutting-edge research papers
• Familiarity with code-reviewing, C++, Linux, Git is a plus
• PhD in a relevant area and / or track records of delivering value through machine learning are a big plus.

What we offer you

• Attractive compensation with salary and equity
• Immersion in a team of world-class researchers, engineers and entrepreneurs
• A unique position to shape the future of autonomy and tackle the biggest challenge of our time
• Bespoke learning and development opportunities
• Relocation support with visa sponsorship
• Flexible working hours - we trust you to do your job well, at times that suit you and your time
• Benefits such as an onsite chef, workplace nursery scheme, private health insurance, therapy, daily yoga, onsite bar, large social budgets, unlimited L&D requests, enhanced parental leave, and more!

Wayve is built by people from all walks of life. We believe that it is our differences that make us stronger, and our unique perspectives and backgrounds that allow us to build something different. We are proud to be an equal opportunities workplace, where we don’t just embrace diversity but nurture it - so that we all thrive and grow.

The impact you will have

In your role you will be responsible for designing the software architecture to integrate our ML-based AD solution into an automotive L2-L3 system application. This includes the strategy and the concept of how to embed our fundamentally new autonomy solution in future OEM software environments. You will also engage with our customers and represent our approach and our company in the planning and execution of collaboration projects.

You will grow with the company and be critical in establishing how software stack design for automotive applications with software engineering leads. Our stack includes base software for sensor data processing, neural network execution and diagnostics and robotic functions for vehicle control.

You will also act as a coach to others towards an automotive grade, requirement based software development mindset to help teams deliver automotive grade software.

Challenges you will own:

• Lead the architectural design of software interfaces for L2 and L3 autonomous driving applications, ensuring seamless integration with the OEM software environment.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams comprising machine learning engineers, software developers, system engineers, and product managers to define and refine the software architecture.
• Utilize your extensive experience to provide technical leadership and guidance throughout the software development lifecycle, from requirements analysis to architecture design, implementation, and integration.
• Define clear software interfaces, APIs, and communication protocols between the autonomous driving applications and OEM platforms, facilitating smooth integration and interoperability.
• Work closely with OEM partners to gather software interface requirements, and collaborate on design decisions that optimize integration, performance, and data exchange.
• Collaborate with safety and functional safety teams to ensure that the software architecture aligns with ISO 26262 functional safety standards and other relevant regulations
• Work closely with the engineering leads and test engineer leads to ensure traceability of our requirements, implementation and tests.
• Support the team to implement ASPICE compliant processes

You will be essential to Wayve’s mission, deeply enjoy what you do, take immense pride in being a small part of something big, and love pushing the boundaries of what’s possible.

This role will be based in our London King’s Cross HQ, but we are open to discussing hybrid roles for the right candidate.

About you

Essential:

• Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field
• You have proven experience (minimum 8 years) in designing and developing ADAS and L2/L3 software architecture for series applications
• Extensive domain knowledge in autonomous driving software stacks
• Previous involvement in automotive series programs, showcasing a deep grasp of the automotive software development lifecycle and platform integration complexities
• Familiarity with the process of requirements engineering and traceability for automotive grade software
• Proficiency in software architecture principles, design patterns, and software modelling tools
• Ability to effectively communicate and collaborate with OEMs and external partners to understand integration requirements and ensure successful implementation.
• Familiarity with ISO 26262 functional safety standards and ASPICE and their application to software architecture design
• You are deeply curious about building something new and relish the idea of helping to define AV2.0 and how we build it.

Desirable:

• Extensive experience in machine learning technologies, especially as applied to autonomous driving is a plus
• Familiarity with neural network architecture design and optimization for real-time embedded applications is a plus
  
  

Our offer:

• A position to shape the future of autonomous driving, and thus to tackle one of the biggest challenges of our time
• Immersion in a team of world-class researchers, engineers and entrepreneurs
• Competitive compensation and stock options
• On-site chef and bar, lots of fun socials, a workplace nursery scheme and more!
• Help relocating/travelling to London, with visa sponsorship
• Flexible working hours - we trust you to do your job well, at times that suit you and your team.

Wayve is built by people from all walks of life. We believe that it is our differences that make us stronger, and our unique perspectives and backgrounds that allow us to build something different. We are proud to be an equal opportunities workplace, where we don’t just embrace diversity but nurture it - so that we all thrive and grow.

Where you’ll have an impact

We are looking for hands-on candidates who can develop reliable and performant software running on distributed, high-end computing devices. We are building a full-stack autonomous vehicle software solution, including data collection, storage, ML inference, and robotics controls. As a member of the Software Platform team, you will work within a multi-disciplinary engineering team which is delivering the software for edge devices to reliably provide data, experimentation, validation, and autonomy on a large-scale fleet of vehicles. Through this role, you will have the opportunity to work with Wayve’s next-generation innovative compute and sensor platform and contribute to the software development lifecycle. Your responsibilities will be to design and develop reliable and observable software solutions, challenges include: the integration of new sensors, collection of data at massive scale, and optimisation of the software stack for latency, consistency, and observability.

• Build software to enable full sensor integration and data capture at scale and quality necessary for a fully autonomous vehicle
• Deliver and maintain soft-real-time Linux-based software systems to a fleet of embedded devices on automobiles. Including data collection and storage as well as machine learning inference on the edge
• Create robust, fault tolerant software solutions, with comprehensive system diagnostics so we can quickly and efficiently resolve any issues preventing our distributed fleet from operating at maximum capacity
• Design, implement, and use performance review tools to improve performance and resolve both ad-hoc and systemic issues
• Work collaboratively with a team of software and hardware engineers to design and build new iterations of our hardware platform, from the ground up where necessary

What you’ll bring to Wayve

• Experience writing high-performance code in Rust, C++, C, or similar
• Experience developing software for Linux-based systems
• Knowledge of the Linux kernel, Linux-based custom distributions, device drivers
• Knowledge of working with distributed computing

What we offer you

• Competitive compensation with salary and equity
• Immersion in a team of world-class researchers, engineers and entrepreneurs
• A position to shape the future of autonomous driving and to tackle the biggest challenges of our time
• Benefits such as an onsite chef, workplace nursery scheme, private health insurance, therapy, daily yoga, onsite bar, large social budgets, unlimited L&D requests, and more!
• This is a full-time role based in our office in King’s Cross. If your role is possible to do remotely we support flexible working, including working for up to 2 weeks from anywhere in the world. We trust you to know what works best for your team and projects and ask that you have a healthy presence that enables the right meetings to happen in person and strong relationships to be built.

Wayve is built by people from all walks of life. We believe that it is our differences that make us stronger, and our unique perspectives and backgrounds that allow us to build something different. We are proud to be an equal opportunities workplace, where we don’t just embrace diversity but nurture it - so that we all thrive and grow.

The impact you will have

Wayve is developing next-generation autonomous driving technology, to enable autonomous transportation services. We are partnering with two of the UK’s biggest online grocery delivery fleets to trial live operations of our self-driving technology on public roads.

As Director of Engineering you will manage the Embodied AI group within our Software Engineering organisation. You will report to the VP of Software who reports to the CEO. There are four software groups:

• Cloud Infrastructure (data and ML training infra)
• Onboard Software (the car computer system software)
• Embodied AI Products (the AI+Robotics autonomy software and data)
• Product Delivery (the experimentation and product delivery workflows)

The Embodied AI group is closest to the business within the Software organisation. You get to work directly with business leadership and industry partners, and help shape our products. It is a Product Development role working closely with a separate Research Team that provides step improvements in model performance/safety.

The role is on the critical path to the financial success of the business. You are responsible for taking promising prototype AI models and delivering an autonomous vehicle capability roadmap with production-level quality. This includes collecting, filtering and selecting the most relevant training data; and then training, tuning, debugging production models, as well as developing the Robotics software stack. The technology will need to be proved in multiple geographical areas, working with a separate Operations team.

You are expected to establish solid ML practices from the start and to attract technical leadership. You will lead two teams to start with: Robotics (established, needs to grow) and Production Model and Data (in bootstrap phase, you need to build it up).

You will set the technical direction in your area and ensure that deliverables align with company objectives. You will provide leadership and guidance to each of the Engineering Managers that work within your area. You will steer the teams and coordinate with others across Wayve. You will work with leaders across the company to ensure career growth for your teams.

This means you will:

• Define and own the technical vision, strategy and metrics for your area, ensuring its teams and the rest of Wayve are aligned.
• Framing autonomous driving as a problem that can be solved by data. Building a massive-scale fleet learning platform and neural network capable of learning generalised, robust driving intelligence from experience.
• Using our fleet and compute resources, demonstrate that this system can learn to adapt to different vehicles and cities.
• Partner with the senior leadership team to maintain a culture of impact, performance, and health.
• Build technical capabilities across the division and develop talented engineers as Wayve grows. Build resilient and reliable systems, teams and individuals.
• Work closely with team members to develop career plans and growth trajectories based on each individual’s strengths and weaknesses and their own aspirations.

You will be essential to Wayve’s mission, deeply enjoy what you do, take immense pride in being a part of something big, and love pushing the boundaries of what’s possible.

This role will be based at our headquarters near King’s Cross in London.

What you’ll bring to Wayve

Essential

• Overall: You have already delivered high-tech products that rely on complex AI models.
• Management: 2+ years of leading teams of 50+ engineers at large companies or 25+ at startups.
• Execution skills: resource allocation, program planning and execution.
• Domain skills: experience training models used in production.
• Engineering skills: code development practices, testing, serviceability.
• Product delivery skills: roadmap articulation, interface with leadership & business functions.
• Education: BS or MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or similar experience.

Desirable

• Experience with successful transfer from Research to Product.
• Industry experience in Robotics.
• Industry experience with Computer Vision with real-world product impact.
• Experience with cloud platforms, databases, large scale data pipelines.

This is our ideal candidate, but by no means the only candidate; we all have different strengths. If you don’t match 100% but believe you could do the job well, we would love to hear from you.

Our offer

• Competitive compensation and significant upside potential as a well funded series B startup.
• Immersion in a team of world-class researchers, engineers and entrepreneurs.
• Opportunity to shape the future of autonomous driving, a real world breakthrough technology.
• On-site chef and bar, fun socials, workplace nursery scheme, comprehensive private health insurance.
• Help relocating/travelling to London, with visa sponsorship.
• Flexible working hours - we trust you to do your job well, at times that suit you and your team.
  
  

Wayve is built by people from all walks of life. We believe that it is our differences that make us stronger, and our unique perspectives and backgrounds that allow us to build something different. We are proud to be an equal opportunities workplace, where we don’t just embrace diversity but nurture it - so that we all thrive and grow.

Impact expected

As an Engineering Manager for the Robot Software Platform Team, you will lead a team of 10 engineers in building the software infrastructure for Wayve’s next-generation hardware platform which will run on our autonomous vehicles. The Software Platform team is responsible for designing and developing reliable and observable software solutions. Other challenges include: the integration of new sensors, collection of data at massive scale, running onboard inference and optimisation of the software stack for latency, consistency, and observability.

In this role, you will:

• Actively fostering and promoting technical excellence within the team.
• Lead technical discussions and guide technical direction where needed.
• Communicate effectively with internal stakeholders, and other teams within the organisation to ensure alignment.
• Work closely with team members to develop career plans and growth trajectories.
• Define and own the strategy, vision and metrics for the Robot Software Platform team.

What we are looking for in our candidate

Essential:

• Proven track record of leading engineering teams.
• Demonstrated ability to manage software engineers and grow their careers.
• Track record of promoting software engineering best practices and excellence within the team.
• Good foundational coding knowledge and experience.

Desirable:

• Prior experience leading teams at a growing company
• Practical experience with: Embedded Linux systems, scalable or distributed systems, robotics
• Experience performant systems language like C++ and/or Rust
• Experience in building software for high performance computing systems with large scale of data throughput

What we offer:

• Competitive compensation with salary and equity
• Immersion in a team of world-class researchers, engineers and entrepreneurs
• A unique position to shape the future of autonomy and tackle one of the biggest challenges of our time
• Bespoke learning and development opportunities
• Flexible working hours - we trust you to do your job well, at times that suit you and your team
• Private onsite chef, in-house bar, lots of socials, and more!

Wayve is built by people from all walks of life. We believe that it is our differences that make us stronger, and our unique perspectives and backgrounds that allow us to build something different. We are proud to be an equal opportunities workplace, where we don’t just embrace diversity but nurture it - so that we all thrive and grow.

Where you will have an impact

As an estimation engineer your focus will be on the algorithms which provide estimates of various key data required by other parts of the AV stack. Some examples include vehicle motion (pose, velocities, accelerations), parameters which govern the vehicle dynamics, and calibrations of sensors. As such, your work will have direct impact on how well our cars drive.

You will write both real-time software to run on our robots and offline software for post-hoc estimation, visualisation and analysis.

You will work with a small team to write code, debug hard problems which impact real world applications and help us win the space-race of the 2020’s: Autonomous Driving. If you have experience as a Software Engineer, Systems Engineer, Production Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer, or Robotics Engineer with a focus on performance and systems you’ll be well prepared for this role, but we encourage anyone who’s passionate about systems, scale and reliability to apply!

Working in the Robotics team, you will be responsible for building, deploying and tuning estimation algorithms. This includes responsibilities like:

• Writing, testing and validating high performance real-time software
• Building analysis tools to visualise your algorithms’ performance and refine estimates
• Fine-tuning algorithms in test track or on-road environments
• Building monitoring solutions to visualise performance of your algorithms at scale and identify issues quickly

What you will bring to Wayve

• Experience building real time systems for robotics, autonomy, AR/VR or related field
• Practical, hands-on experience with debugging systems / algorithms in the field
• Strong modern C++ and Python
• PhD or MSc in robotics, computer science, engineering or related field

Nice to haves:

• Experience or knowledge in any of: machine learning, state estimation (including but not limited to Kalman filtering), SLAM, perception, prediction, motion planning, control
• Technical leadership experience, e.g. where you led a project, team, feature development or trial
• Knowledge of modern machine learning techniques is a plus, but not a requirement for this role

What we offer you

• Competitive compensation with salary and equity

• Immersion in a team of world-class researchers, engineers and entrepreneurs

• A position to shape the future of autonomous driving and to tackle the biggest challenges of our time

• Benefits such as an onsite chef, workplace nursery scheme, private health insurance, therapy, daily yoga, onsite bar, large social budgets, unlimited L&D requests, enhanced parental leave, and more!

• This is a full-time role based in our office in King’s Cross. If your role is possible to do remotely we support flexible working, including working for up to 2 weeks from anywhere in the world. We trust you to know what works best for your team and projects and ask that you have a healthy presence that enables the right meetings to happen in person and strong relationships to be built.

Wayve is built on people and their differences gives us strength. We are proud to be an equal opportunities workplace and encourage people from all walks of life to join our journey, growing and expanding with us. We don't just embrace diversity, we encourage it.

Where you will have an impact

The Lead Product Security Architect sits within our wider Security Team and reports to the Head of Security.

You will be responsible for establishing Wayve’s Product Security function, ensuring we have the processes, tooling and structures in place to deliver security by design within our products, and comply with future regulatory obligations (e.g. R155).

You will partner with the technical and commercial teams responsible for developing/procuring our products, both onboard and offboard, to ensure security risks are identified and appropriately managed throughout the product lifecycle.

As a Lead Product Security Architect you will:

• Work with the Head of Security to establish Wayve’s product security function
• Define and deliver a roadmap of processes and other requirements necessary for Wayve to comply with relevant regulations and standards (e.g. R155 and ISO21434)
• Ensure security risk is appropriately managed within our internally developed systems and services, and within our supply chain
• Work with and upskill technical delivery teams on security good practices and processes to ensure our products are secure by design

What you will bring to Wayve

Essential

• Experience securing complex public cloud environments
• Experience delivering security by design throughout a product lifecycle
• Experience undertaking security risk assessments
• Experience with the scoping and delivery of security testing to assure the effectiveness of deployed controls
• Able to effectively communicate and engage others on security matters to influence their decisions and ensure security is considered
• Experience delivering in accordance with recognised industry security standards e.g. CIS Critical Security Controls, ISO27001, NIST CSF

Desirable

• Experience securing embedded systems, cyber-physical systems, and/or IP networks
• Experience delivering security within a regulated environment
• Experience with relevant automotive/operational cyber security standards i.e. ISO21434, IEC62443

What we offer you

• Competitive salary and benefits
• A dynamic and fast-paced work environment
• The opportunity to shape the future of autonomous driving and tackle the biggest challenges of our time
• Benefits such as an onsite chef, workplace nursery scheme, private health insurance, therapy, daily yoga, onsite bar, large social budgets, unlimited L&D requests, and more!
• This is a full-time role based in our office in London. If your role is possible to do remotely, we support flexible working, including working for up to 2 weeks from anywhere in the world. We trust you to know what works best for your team and projects and ask that you have a healthy presence that enables the right meetings to happen in person and strong relationships to be built.
  
  

Wayve is built by people from all walks of life. We believe that it is our differences that make us stronger, and our unique perspectives and backgrounds that allow us to build something different. We are proud to be an equal opportunities workplace, where we don’t just embrace diversity but nurture it - so that we all thrive and grow.

Where you will have an impact

We’re looking for bold, talented and creative people to join our journey in developing next-generation autonomous vehicles. We’re a growing start-up, building our first cohort of engineers and you can be at the heart of this!

We are looking for Machine Learning Engineers to help productionize an end-to-end self driving neural network for autonomous driving. You’ll be working closely with Platform and Research teams to integrate, test and scale ML features for production. Productionizing and scaling our ML models by working across Data, Validation, Platform and Research is a core component of this role and why we need you!

WHAT YOU'LL BRING TO WAYVE

• 3 + years experience in shipping Computer Vision features and in applied research
• Passion to take research ideas to production
• Good grasp of Computer Vision literature
• Experience in working in platform teams and working with research teams
• Good insight into the training, validation, testing and metrics for deep learning features/models
• Experience in reporting and tracking over time benchmarked performance in an open and accessible way
• Ability to write high quality, well-structured and tested Python code
• Solid experience working with concurrent, parallel and distributed computing
• Comfortable working with and visualising huge data sets + finding and removing examples of noisy or bad data
• Knowledge of computing fundamentals - what makes code fast, secure and reliable
• BS or MS in Machine Learning, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline or equivalent experience

What we offer you

• Competitive compensation with salary and equity
• Immersion in a team of world-class researchers, engineers and entrepreneurs
• A position to shape the future of autonomous driving and to tackle the biggest challenges of our time
• Benefits such as an onsite chef, workplace nursery scheme, private health insurance, therapy, daily yoga, onsite bar, large social budgets, unlimited L&D requests, enhanced parental leave, and more!
• This is a full-time role based in our office in King’s Cross, but we support flexible working, including working for up to 2 weeks from anywhere in the world. We trust you to know what works best for your team and projects and ask that you have a healthy presence that enables the right meetings to happen in person and strong relationships to be built.

Wayve is built by people from all walks of life. We believe that it is our differences that make us stronger, and our unique perspectives and backgrounds that allow us to build something different. We are proud to be an equal opportunities workplace, where we don’t just embrace diversity but nurture it - so that we all thrive and grow.

Where you will have impact

• Ensure software performance and efficiency end-to-end., working between embedded and distributed infrastructure on one side, and machine learning (training and inference) and robotics use cases on the other side.
• Anticipate technical roadblocks – feasibility, schedule delays, complex interdependencies.
• Contribute to the definition and execution of engineering roadmaps.
• Make tough technical decisions putting in balance velocity, serviceability, sustainability.
• Set and hold a high bar of software engineering practices – design, coding, test.
• Be a mentor to tech leads and managers across the software engineering organisation..

What we are looking for in our candidate

• Experience as tech lead of teams or projects spanning 20+ software engineers.
• Deep understanding of system software, from hardware level to distributed systems.
• Experience in designing and implementing software for complex systems.
• Experience delivering complex systems into production, and supporting them post-production.
• Experience communicating with senior stakeholders including executives.

What we offer you

• Competitive compensation with salary and equity

• Immersion in a team of world-class researchers, engineers and entrepreneurs

• A position to shape the future of autonomous driving and to tackle the biggest challenges of our time

• Benefits such as an onsite chef, workplace nursery scheme, private health insurance, therapy, daily yoga, onsite bar, large social budgets, unlimited L&D requests, enhanced parental leave, and more!

• This is a full-time role based in our office in King’s Cross. If your role is possible to do remotely we support flexible working, including working for up to 2 weeks from anywhere in the world. We trust you to know what works best for your team and projects and ask that you have a healthy presence that enables the right meetings to happen in person and strong relationships to be built.

Wayve is built on people and their differences gives us strength. We are proud to be an equal opportunities workplace and encourage people from all walks of life to join our journey, growing and expanding with us. We don't just embrace diversity, we encourage it.

Where you will have an impact

Impact expected

• Own the interface between the robot software stack and the robot.
• Elicit and communicate the performance and sensor requirements for the robot and drive-by-wire system.
• Work with suppliers and partners to ensure successful drive-by-wire system integration for our future robot platforms.
• Keep our internal R&D fleet safe and functional with regards to drive-by-wire.

Challenges they will own

• Collaborate to define the interface of the robot software stack to the robot.
• Support bring-up and test of new robot platforms prior to AV stack integration.
• Interfacing with third parties to specify and test against requirements.

What we are looking for in our candidate

• Practical experience in robotics applications
• Hands-on experience with testing, tuning and debugging real-time software
• Understanding of theoretical aspects of robotics
• System thinking - can quickly develop an understanding of how the AV stack components work together to achieve driving performance

Essential

• Experience with CAN (creating DBC files, writing interface scripts, plotting time series of CAN signals for analysis / comparison)
• Experience with specifying sensors for robotics applications; including reading and understanding datasheets.
• Setup and execution of hardware-in-the-loop testing of embedded systems.
• Reading and writing requirements, acceptance criteria and software / system tests.
• Strong software engineer (Python; comfortable in C++), day-to-day Linux use.

Desirable

• Writing, reviewing and testing embedded software for automotive applications
• Familiar with software V-lifecycle and working in this framework
• Writing embedded software to meet safety requirements
• MATLAB/Simulink
• Rust

What we offer you

• Competitive compensation with salary and equity

• Immersion in a team of world-class researchers, engineers and entrepreneurs

• A position to shape the future of autonomous driving and to tackle the biggest challenges of our time

• Benefits such as an onsite chef, workplace nursery scheme, private health insurance, therapy, daily yoga, onsite bar, large social budgets, unlimited L&D requests, enhanced parental leave, and more!

• This is a full-time role based in our office in King’s Cross. If your role is possible to do remotely we support flexible working, including working for up to 2 weeks from anywhere in the world. We trust you to know what works best for your team and projects and ask that you have a healthy presence that enables the right meetings to happen in person and strong relationships to be built.

Wayve is built on people and their differences gives us strength. We are proud to be an equal opportunities workplace and encourage people from all walks of life to join our journey, growing and expanding with us. We don't just embrace diversity, we encourage it.

The impact you will have

Wayve’s approach to autonomous vehicles presents unique performance challenges. Our mission requires us to deploy state of the art modes that not only drive safely, but run in real time with strict limits on power consumption and heat produced. As advances in ML tend towards bigger with billions of parameters we have a significant challenge fitting these models on a car!

As a GPU performance engineer, you will be focussed on getting the most out of the hardware on our vehicles, and enabling us to deploy larger and more powerful models on the road. You will work directly with our model development engineers, to profile existing models and develop new architectures and optimisations designed to get the maximum performance possible from our hardware. You will also work with the robot hardware teams on design choices that maximise the model capacity and performance of our vehicles.

Challenges you will own

• Profiling, debugging, and optimising model architecture for fast inference
• Rewriting core parts of the model architecture for maximum performance
• Building a runtime environment that maximises the model capacity and speed
• Applying model optimisation techniques to improve training time
• Staying current with developments in GPU computing and machine learning techniques

About you

Essential -

• Deep knowledge of GPU architectures and how to squeeze the most out them
• Ability to identify, debug and fix performance bottlenecks in our models
• Experience with PyTorch and CUDA
• Strong Python ability
• Knowledge of model optimization techniques such as pruning and quantisation
• Experience with GPU profiling and debugging tools such as NVIDIA Nsight and Intel VTune

Desirable -

• Knowledge of more recent technologies such as Torch inductor or Triton
• A strong foundation in deep learning concepts would be helpful
• C++ experience

Our offer:

• A position to shape the future of autonomous driving, and thus to tackle one of the biggest challenges of our time
• Immersion in a team of world-class researchers, engineers and entrepreneurs
• Competitive compensation and stock options
• On-site chef and bar, lots of fun socials, a workplace nursery scheme and more!
• Help relocating/travelling to London, with visa sponsorship
• Flexible working hours - we trust you to do your job well, at times that suit you and your team.

Wayve is built by people from all walks of life. We believe that it is our differences that make us stronger, and our unique perspectives and backgrounds that allow us to build something different. We are proud to be an equal opportunities workplace, where we don’t just embrace diversity but nurture it - so that we all thrive and grow.

The impact you will have

We are looking for our first product designer to seed the design function at Wayve. This role will be taking on end-to-end ownership of the UX design principles and processes to take Wayve’s internal development platform to the next level of scale and productivity.

We’re looking for bold, talented and creative people to join our journey in developing next-generation autonomous vehicles.

In line with our vision, we need to design and build the tools to accelerate our AI & robotics engineers to experiment and learn faster. That’s where you come in!

Challenges you will own:

As the first designer, you will be helping our engineering and product teams build applications for our internal AI research platform, in-vehicle interface and fleet management platforms.

You will help us to accelerate our learning loops, so that we can run experiments and iterate faster with higher quality, both on-road and in simulation.

What you will bring

Essential -

• Experience using Figma (or similar prototyping tools)
• Outstanding UX ability, visual design and product thinking for complex data-driven apps, for a highly technical audience.
• Experience applying research, usability tests, and metrics to inform design decisions
• Experience partnering with product managers, engineers, and cross-functional stakeholders to understand requirements and provide creative, thoughtful solutions.
• Excellent communication skills

Desirable -

• Some experience in software engineering or UI development is a bonus
• Domain experience in robotics or AI

Our offer:

• A position to shape the future of autonomous driving, and thus to tackle one of the biggest challenges of our time
• Immersion in a team of world-class researchers, engineers and entrepreneurs
• Competitive compensation and stock options
• On-site chef and bar, lots of fun socials, a workplace nursery scheme and more!
• Help relocating/travelling to London, with visa sponsorship
• Flexible working hours - we trust you to do your job well, at times that suit you and your team
  
  

Wayve is built by people from all walks of life. We believe that it is our differences that make us stronger, and our unique perspectives and backgrounds that allow us to build something different. We are proud to be an equal opportunities workplace, where we don’t just embrace diversity but nurture it - so that we all thrive and grow.

Where you’ll have an impact!

We’re looking for bold, talented and creative people to join our journey in developing next-generation autonomous vehicles. We’re a growing start-up, building our first cohort of engineers and you can be at the heart of this!

Data is key to our vision: our end-to-end machine learning approach is fundamentally data-driven. This makes this role an exciting opportunity to be at the heart of Wayve, with an opportunity to directly influence performance of self-driving algorithms.

We are looking for Software Engineers to help build the Wayve data platform which facilitates data ingestion, labelling, storage, curation and analysis of Wayve data.

Challenges you will own

• The Data Platform team owns the data, infrastructure and tooling for the data we use to develop a learned driver.

• You will be part of a growing group focussed on discovering the best data recipe for driving, exploring how far data can push autonomous driving performance.

• You will be working across functions with machine learning research engineers, virtual world simulation engineers, robotics engineers and safety drivers to ingest, enrich and visualise thousands of hours of driving data.

• You will have opportunities to develop new skills in data science, big data, analytics and data visualisation.

• Example projects:
  • Quality control and validation of datasets e.g. can we remove examples of bad driving.
  • Labelling, enrichment and augmentation of data at scale using thousands of GPUs simultaneously.
  • Tooling for dataset visualisation and modification e.g. can we visualise lane markings and correct mistakes in our datasets.

What you’ll bring to Wayve

• Expertise working with 'big data', ETL on large data sets
• Experience in Python, or ability to learn quickly
• Knowledge of software engineering practices - what makes code reusable and extensible
• Experience working closely with users, shaping data to fit their needs
• Some knowledge of working with concurrent, parallel and distributed computing
• Passion for infrastructure: building internal tooling and frameworks.

What we can offer you

• Competitive compensation with salary and equity
• Immersion in a team of world-class researchers, engineers and entrepreneurs
• A position to shape the future of autonomous driving and to tackle the biggest challenges of our time
• Benefits such as an onsite chef, workplace nursery scheme, private health insurance, therapy, daily yoga, onsite bar, large social budgets, unlimited L&D requests, enhanced parental leave, and more!
• This is a full-time role based in our office in King’s Cross. If your role is possible to do remotely we support flexible working, including working for up to 2 weeks from anywhere in the world. We trust you to know what works best for your team and projects and ask that you have a healthy presence that enables the right meetings to happen in person and strong relationships to be built.

Wayve is built on people and their differences gives us strength. We are proud to be an equal opportunities workplace and encourage people from all walks of life to join our journey, growing and expanding with us. We don't just embrace diversity, we encourage it.

Where you will have an impact

We’re looking for bold, talented and creative people to join our journey in developing next-generation autonomous vehicles. We’re a growing AI company, building the largest ML training platform and you can be at the heart of this!

Are you excited by building highly distributed cloud based systems? We need to 100x our total training throughput by horizontal scaling on more GPUs. That said, tracing, profiling, monitoring and debugging are key capabilities we need to enable. You will work in small teams to write code, debug hard problems which impact real world applications and help us win the space-race of the 2020’s: Autonomous Driving.

We are looking for Software Engineers who are passionate about scaling up our training infrastructure which includes a massive data infrastructure for collecting exabytes of data from hundreds of on-road vehicles, a large scale ML training environment which helps shape our autonomous driving models, and debugging hard problems that occur in a production environment as we operate cars in London

What you will bring to Wayve

Essential:

• Lives and breathes scale, reliability and production excellence
• Proficient in at least one programming language (some of our codebase consists of: Python, C/C++, Golang, Rust)
• Experience working with ML training, inference workloads and their frameworks (examples: CUDA, TensorRT, PyTorch, TensorFlow, etc)
• Experience working with cloud providers (AWS/GCP/Azure) - Kubernetes, Docker, ML
• Experience leading complex projects, and mentoring peers

Desirable:

• Experience with networking concepts, operating Linux/Unix systems with in depth practical knowledge, troubleshooting, production reliability, observability across systems and ensuring developer efficiency
• Track record of promoting engineering and infrastructure best practices and delivering high quality projects and code
• Passionate about working with large scale distributed systems in an environment that values teamwork with other technical engineers and researchers
• Knowledge of computing fundamentals - what makes code fast, secure and reliable
• BS or MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline or equivalent experience

What we offer you

• Competitive compensation with salary and equity
• Immersion in a team of world-class researchers, engineers and entrepreneurs
• A position to shape the future of autonomous driving and to tackle the biggest challenges of our time
• Benefits such as an onsite chef, workplace nursery scheme, private health insurance, therapy, daily yoga, onsite bar, large social budgets, unlimited L&D requests, enhanced parental leave, and more!
• This is a full-time role based in our office in King’s Cross, but we support flexible working, including working for up to 2 weeks from anywhere in the world. We trust you to know what works best for your team and projects and ask that you have a healthy presence that enables the right meetings to happen in person and strong relationships to be built

Wayve is built by people from all walks of life. We believe that it is our differences that make us stronger, and our unique perspectives and backgrounds that allow us to build something different. We are proud to be an equal opportunities workplace, where we don’t just embrace diversity but nurture it - so that we all thrive and grow.

Where you’ll have an impact

We are looking for skilled software engineers who have the experience in shipping in production reliable and performant software for distributed, high-end computing devices. As a member of the onboard Software Platform team, you will work within an engineering team which is delivering the software for edge devices to reliably provide data, experimentation, validation, and autonomy on a large-scale fleet of vehicles. Through this role, you will have the opportunity to work with Wayve’s next-generation innovative compute and sensor platform and contribute to all phases of the software development lifecycle. Your main responsibilities as a contributor to the robot software stack will include:

• Build software to enable full sensor integration and data capture at scale and quality necessary for a fully autonomous vehicle.
• Deliver and maintain soft-real-time Linux-based applications to a fleet of embedded devices on automobiles. Including data collection and storage as well as machine learning inference on the edge.
• Create robust, fault tolerant software solutions, with comprehensive system diagnostics so we can quickly and efficiently resolve any issues preventing our deployed fleet from operating at maximum capacity.
• Design, implement, and use system monitoring tools to improve performance and resolve both ad-hoc and systemic issues.

Technologies the team is using: the onboard software is run on Nvidia Jetson devices; C++ and Rust being the main languages we use in the most of our codebase. We use many of the industry standard libraries that you'd expect i.e. ROS2 ecosystem.

What you bring to Wayve

• Programming skills in a high performance system languages like C++ and/or Rust..
• Strong understanding on how to optimally use/configure IPC middleware for high data throughput robotic applications
• Debugging skills, including an ability to delve deep on performance issues, stack traces, core dumps, slow disk writes, high system load, memory bottlenecks, eternal device bottlenecks, and threading issues.
• Knowledge of the Linux, build systems and user space device drivers.
• An understanding of how distributed systems operate, either in cloud or robotics systems, and how to make these types of systems more scalable and performant.

What we offer you

• Competitive compensation with salary and equity

• Immersion in a team of world-class researchers, engineers and entrepreneurs

• A position to shape the future of autonomous driving and to tackle the biggest challenges of our time

• Benefits such as an onsite chef, workplace nursery scheme, private health insurance, therapy, daily yoga, onsite bar, large social budgets, unlimited L&D requests, enhanced parental leave, and more!

• This is a full-time role based in our office in King’s Cross. If your role is possible to do remotely we support flexible working, including working for up to 2 weeks from anywhere in the world. We trust you to know what works best for your team and projects and ask that you have a healthy presence that enables the right meetings to happen in person and strong relationships to be built.

Wayve is built on people and their differences gives us strength. We are proud to be an equal opportunities workplace and encourage people from all walks of life to join our journey, growing and expanding with us. We don't just embrace diversity, we encourage it.

Where you’ll have an impact

We are looking for skilled software engineers who have the experience in shipping in production reliable and performant software for distributed, high-end computing devices. As a member of the onboard Software Platform team, you will work within an engineering team which is delivering the software for edge devices to reliably provide data, experimentation, validation, and autonomy on a large-scale fleet of vehicles. Through this role, you will have the opportunity to work with Wayve’s next-generation innovative compute and sensor platform and contribute to all phases of the software development lifecycle. Your main responsibilities as a contributor to the robot software stack will include:

• Build software to enable full sensor integration and data capture at scale and quality necessary for a fully autonomous vehicle.
• Deliver and maintain soft-real-time Linux-based applications to a fleet of embedded devices on automobiles. Including data collection and storage as well as machine learning inference on the edge.
• Create robust, fault tolerant software solutions, with comprehensive system diagnostics so we can quickly and efficiently resolve any issues preventing our deployed fleet from operating at maximum capacity.
• Design, implement, and use system monitoring tools to improve performance and resolve both ad-hoc and systemic issues.

Technologies the team is using: the onboard software is run on Nvidia Jetson devices; C++ and Rust being the main languages we use in the most of our codebase. We use many of the industry standard libraries that you'd expect i.e. ROS2 ecosystem.

What you bring to Wayve

• Programming skills in a high performance system languages like C++ and/or Rust..
• Strong understanding on how to optimally use/configure IPC middleware for high data throughput robotic applications
• Debugging skills, including an ability to delve deep on performance issues, stack traces, core dumps, slow disk writes, high system load, memory bottlenecks, eternal device bottlenecks, and threading issues.
• Knowledge of the Linux, build systems and user space device drivers.
• An understanding of how distributed systems operate, either in cloud or robotics systems, and how to make these types of systems more scalable and performant.

What we offer you

• Competitive compensation with salary and equity

• Immersion in a team of world-class researchers, engineers and entrepreneurs

• A position to shape the future of autonomous driving and to tackle the biggest challenges of our time

• Benefits such as an onsite chef, workplace nursery scheme, private health insurance, therapy, daily yoga, onsite bar, large social budgets, unlimited L&D requests, enhanced parental leave, and more!

• This is a full-time role based in our office in Mountain View, CA. If your role is possible to do remotely we support flexible working, including working for up to 2 weeks from anywhere in the world. We trust you to know what works best for your team and projects and ask that you have a healthy presence that enables the right meetings to happen in person and strong relationships to be built.

Wayve is built on people and their differences gives us strength. We are proud to be an equal opportunities workplace and encourage people from all walks of life to join our journey, growing and expanding with us. We don't just embrace diversity, we encourage it.

The impact you will have

As a Software Test Engineer for our AV 2.0 stack, you will be responsible for ensuring that the integrated software stack performs as required for safe, autonomous operation on the road.

As one of the first Software Test Engineers at Wayve, you will grow with the company and be critical in establishing what good software delivery looks like across Wayve. You will establish our approach to automated software integration testing and work closely with software engineering leads. Our stack includes base software for sensor data processing, neural network execution and diagnostics and robotic functions for vehicle control.

You will also act as a coach to others towards a test-driven development mindset to help teams deliver automotive quality software.

Challenges you will own:

• Work closely with software engineers and system engineers to define test cases and pass/fail criteria for our AV 2.0 stack
• Design and build a HIL infrastructure as an environment for automated testing
• Build the framework for automated test execution, test scheduling, and test result dashboard creation
• Write scripts for automated software integration tests (Aspice SWE5 & SWE6)
• Develop tools for scalable generation of test scenarios based on collected data
• Strategically plan the roll-out of tests towards automotive grade software delivery
• Help define the release process with standardised release tests
• Integrate the test execution into the CI pipeline
• Share test results with the team and discuss improvement plans

You will be essential to Wayve’s mission, deeply enjoy what you do, take immense pride in being a small part of something big, and love pushing the boundaries of what’s possible.

This role will be based in our London King’s Cross HQ, but we are open to discussing hybrid roles for the right candidate.

About you

Essential:

• You have a degree in computer science, engineering or a comparable field
• You have 5+ years of experience in automotive software testing
• You have built HILs and test environments
• You have excellent programming skills in Python and C++
• You have written software integration tests for automated test execution for automotive programs
• You have a bias for action and thrive in a fast-paced and dynamic environment, adapting quickly to changing priorities.
• You consider yourself to have an optimistic and open-minded attitude towards solving problems and want to take on the challenge of AVs: the space-race of our generation!

Desirable:

• You have been part of a Level 2 / Level 3 automotive series program, ideally at an OEM or Tier1
• Experience with ASPICE or ISO26262 is a plus
• Hands-on experience in Rust is a plus

This is our ideal candidate, but by no means the only candidate; we all have different strengths. If you don’t match 100% but believe you could do the job well, we would love to hear from you.

Our offer:

• A position to shape the future of autonomous driving, and thus to tackle one of the biggest challenges of our time
• Immersion in a team of world-class researchers, engineers and entrepreneurs
• Competitive compensation and stock options
• On-site chef and bar, lots of fun socials, a workplace nursery scheme and more!
• Help relocating/travelling to London, with visa sponsorship
• Flexible working hours - we trust you to do your job well, at times that suit you and your team.

Wayve is built by people from all walks of life. We believe that it is our differences that make us stronger, and our unique perspectives and backgrounds that allow us to build something different. We are proud to be an equal opportunities workplace, where we don’t just embrace diversity but nurture it - so that we all thrive and grow.

The impact you will have

As one of our first automotive system engineers, you will be responsible for designing the L2/L3 automotive grade system based on our AV2.0 approach. This includes the strategy and the concept of how to embed our fundamentally new autonomy solution in future OEM vehicle infrastructures. You will also engage with our customers and represent our approach and our company in the planning of collaboration projects.

You will grow with the company and be critical in establishing how we design our system closely with software engineering leads. Our stack includes base software for sensor data processing, neural network execution and diagnostics and robotic functions for vehicle control.

You will also act as a coach to others towards an automotive grade, requirement based development mindset to help teams deliver automotive grade software.

Challenges you will own:

• Design the L2 and L3 system including the integration into an OEM onboard and offboard infrastructure with a focus on software features, architecture and interfaces
• Engage on a deep technical level with our engineering leads to identify the optimal system design, considering safety, vehicle level integration, scalability, and implementation efficiency.
• Present our system design to customers and partners and negotiate adaptations between partners and Wayve’s engineering leeds
• Lead the process of technical customer requirement review and negotiations during early stages of an OEM engagement as well as during the OEM program
• Own the creation of the technical specification document of the L2/L3 system for both internal usage as well as partnership programs
• Derive the system requirements and software requirements from customer requirements
• Work closely with the engineering leads and test engineer leads to ensure traceability of our requirements, implementation and tests.
• Support the team to implement ASPICE and ASIL compliant processes

You will be essential to Wayve’s mission, deeply enjoy what you do, take immense pride in being a small part of something big, and love pushing the boundaries of what’s possible.

This role will be based in our London King’s Cross HQ, but we are open to discussing hybrid roles for the right candidate.

About you

Essential:

• You have a degree in computer science, engineering or a comparable field
• You have proven experience (minimum 8 years) in designing and developing ADAS and L2/L3 autonomous systems for automotive applications
• Extensive domain knowledge in autonomous driving software stacks
• You have previously been involved in an automotive series project, demonstrating a comprehensive understanding of the automotive development process, ideally at an OEM or Tier1 or Tier2
• You are familiar with the process of requirements engineering and traceability for automotive grade software and ASPICE
• You are strong in negotiating system requirements and technical specifications across multiple stakeholders including internal and external partners and clients
• You have strong understanding of Classical and Adaptive AutoSAR frameworks
• You have a strong understanding of ISO 26262 functional safety standards and experience in applying safety concepts to automotive system design.
• You are deeply curious about building something new and relish the idea of helping to define AV2.0 and how we build it.

Desirable:

• Extensive experience in machine learning technologies, especially as applied to autonomous driving is a plus
• Familiarity with neural network architecture design and optimization for real-time embedded applications is a plus
• Awareness of SOTIF process and its influence in systems design is a plus

Our offer:

• A position to shape the future of autonomous driving, and thus to tackle one of the biggest challenges of our time
• Immersion in a team of world-class researchers, engineers and entrepreneurs
• Competitive compensation and stock options
• On-site chef and bar, lots of fun socials, a workplace nursery scheme and more!
• Help relocating/travelling to London, with visa sponsorship
• Flexible working hours - we trust you to do your job well, at times that suit you and your team.

Wayve is built by people from all walks of life. We believe that it is our differences that make us stronger, and our unique perspectives and backgrounds that allow us to build something different. We are proud to be an equal opportunities workplace, where we don’t just embrace diversity but nurture it - so that we all thrive and grow.