Autonomous Vehicle Controls Engineer

OpenDigital Limited; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Job summary

Wayve is seeking engineers to develop and enhance the vehicle trajectory and motion controllers that translate AI Driver outputs into safe, smooth vehicle motion across platforms and applications. You will tackle cutting-edge challenges, implement real time systems, and refine evaluation pipelines while impacting the future of autonomous driving technology.

This full-time London role offers a hybrid work policy combining office collaboration and time spent working from home, with opportunities

Qualifications

• Strong fundamentals in control theory with depth in optimization, model-predictive control, numerical methods or dynamical systems
• Practical experience developing, tuning and validating control or motion systems on real world physical systems
• Strong software engineering skills with experience building reliable production-quality systems in C++
• Experience with latency-sensitive or real-time software
• Ability to reason about and debug system-level behaviour in complex robotic systems across software and hardware

Responsibilities

• Develop, integrate, tune, and validate control, trajectory-generation, and action-processing algorithms across different vehicle platforms, operating modes, and challenging driving conditions, ensuring robust real-world performance
• Maintain and evolve our controls software architecture that connects AI Driver outputs to real-time vehicle actuation and feedback
• Implement and maintain production-quality, latency-sensitive control software in C++ for deployment to prototype, reference and production vehicles
• Use simulation, closed-loop evaluation and on-road testing to characterize controller behaviour, diagnose performance issues and validate improvements
• Work with teams across Wayve to define controller interfaces, integrate with adjacent systems and enable new vehicle platforms and product features

Skills

Control theory

Optimization

Model-predictive control

Numerical methods

Dynamical systems

Real-time software

C++

Tools

C++

Job description

Wayve is seeking engineers to develop and enhance the vehicle trajectory and motion controllers that translate AI Driver outputs into safe, smooth vehicle motion across platforms and applications. You will tackle cutting-edge challenges, implement real time systems, and refine evaluation pipelines while impacting the future of autonomous driving technology.

This full-time London role offers a hybrid work policy combining office collaboration and time spent working from home, with opportunities