Control Engineer

Wayve; Leonberg; Vor Ort; EUR 60.000 - 80.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Wayve is seeking an exceptional Engineer for their Application Engineering team in Leonberg, Germany. The role involves integrating and optimising AI software for autonomous driving technology. You'll work closely with robotics, ML, and vehicle engineering experts to ensure high-performance driving.

This full-time position offers a hybrid working model, balancing time in the office and remote work, enhancing innovation and collaboration. Essential skills include strong C++ and Python, and a solid understanding of control theory and optimisation.

Qualifikationen

• Strong theoretical knowledge of control theory and optimisation.
• Practical experience developing control systems in simulation.
• Experience with productionising real-time controllers.

Aufgaben

• Integrate and validate Wayve’s AI software on vehicle platforms.
• Enhance control systems for performance and reliability.
• Develop simulation pipelines for optimal control quality.

Kenntnisse

Control theory

Optimisation

Model-predictive control

C++

Python

State estimation

Jobbeschreibung

At Wayve we are committed to creating a diverse, fair and respectful culture that is inclusive of everyone based on their unique skills and perspectives, and regardless of sex, race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding) or any other basis as protected by applicable law.

About Us

Founded in 2017, Wayve is the leading developer of Embodied AI technology. Our advanced AI software and foundation models enable vehicles to perceive, understand, and navigate any complex environment, enhancing the usability and safety of automated driving systems. Our vision is to create autonomy that propels the world forward. Our intelligent, mapless, and hardware-agnostic AI products are designed for automakers, accelerating the transition from assisted to automated driving. In our fast‑paced environment big problems ignite us—we embrace uncertainty, leaning into complex challenges to unlock groundbreaking solutions. We aim high and stay humble in our pursuit of excellence, constantly learning and evolving as we pave the way for a smarter, safer future. At Wayve, your contributions matter. We value diversity, embrace new perspectives, and foster an inclusive work environment; we back each other to deliver impact. Make Wayve the experience that defines your career!

The Role

We are seeking an exceptional Engineer to join our Germany‑based Application Engineering team, focused on localising and advancing Wayve’s autonomous driving technology for the German market. You’ll play a pivotal role in integrating, validating and optimising our MPC‑based trajectory controller and AI software stack on new vehicle platforms, ensuring safe, reliable and high‑performance driving in diverse real‑world conditions. This is a unique opportunity to work at the intersection of controls, systems integration and applied machine learning, helping expand our AV capabilities across new operational domains while collaborating closely with robotics, ML and vehicle engineering experts.

Key Responsibilities

• Integrate and validate Wayve’s AI software stack and MPC‑based trajectory controller on customer hardware and vehicle platforms.
• Maintain and enhance the controller (coupled with ML‑driven trajectory generation) to improve performance, stability and reliability across different vehicles and environments.
• Establish and advance control and integration methods for ML‑coupled systems, ensuring robustness and scalability across operational domains.
• Test and optimise system behaviour in challenging driving scenarios—from highways to urban settings and adverse weather conditions.
• Develop and refine simulation and evaluation pipelines to guarantee real‑world optimality and control quality.
• Collaborate with cross‑functional teams (Verification, Release, OEM partners) to diagnose and resolve integration and performance issues.

About you

In order to set you up for success as a Software Engineer at Wayve we are looking for the following skills and experience.

Essential

• Strong theoretical knowledge of control theory, optimisation, model‑predictive control, state estimation and numerical methods.
• Practical experience in developing and tuning control systems for physical systems, both in simulation and in the real world.
• Experience productionising and scaling systems including real‑time controllers and monitoring their performance at scale.
• Strong C++ and Python.

Desirable

• Experience with control, dynamics and modelling of road vehicles.

This is a full‑time role based in our office in Leonberg, GER. Wayve operates a hybrid working policy that combines time together in our offices and workshops to fuel innovation, culture, relationships and learning, and time spent working from home. We operate core working hours so you can determine the schedule that works best for you and your team.

Wayve is committed to creating an inclusive interview experience. If you require any accommodations or adjustments to participate fully in our interview process, please let us know.

DISCLAIMER: We will not ask about marriage or pregnancy, care responsibilities or disabilities in any of our job adverts or interviews. However, we do look to capture information about care responsibilities, and disabilities among other diversity information as part of an optional DEI Monitoring form to help us identify areas of improvement in our hiring process and ensure that the process is inclusive and non‑discriminatory.