Autonomous Vehicle Controls Engineer

Wayve; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Relocation & visa sponsorship

Hybrid working model

Learning budget

Health insurance

Pension / retirement benefits

Job summary

Wayve is building the leading AI platform for autonomous driving. The Robotics team designs vehicle-integrated controllers translating AI Driver outputs into safe motion across platforms.

The role focuses on principled controls, real-time systems, testing in complex scenarios, and contributing to safety and vehicle features. You will work across Wayve hubs in London and beyond, with hybrid working and opportunities across ADAS and AV domains.

Qualifications

• Strong fundamentals in control theory and applied optimization.
• Experience with real-time software development and testing.
• Production-quality C++ development for robotics.
• Experience with unit and integration tests and validation.
• Practical robotics or autonomous vehicle experience.

Responsibilities

• Develop, integrate, tune, and validate control and trajectory-generation algorithms across vehicle platforms.
• Maintain and evolve controls software architecture connecting AI outputs to vehicle actuation.
• Own requirements, release readiness, and in-field performance and issue triage.
• Implement and maintain production-quality, latency-sensitive control software in C++.
• Use simulation, closed-loop evaluation and on-road testing to study controller behaviour.
• Collaborate with Wayve teams to define interfaces and enable new vehicle platforms.
• Define and track quality metrics such as KPIs and regressions.
• Contribute to safety artefacts and assist safety cases.

Skills

Control theory

Real-time software

C++ production-grade

Testing & validation

Robotics experience

Autonomous vehicles

Tools

C++

Simulation

CAN bus

RTOS

ROS

Job description

Wayve is building the leading AI platform for autonomous driving. The Robotics team designs vehicle-integrated controllers translating AI Driver outputs into safe motion across platforms.

The role focuses on principled controls, real-time systems, testing in complex scenarios, and contributing to safety and vehicle features. You will work across Wayve hubs in London and beyond, with hybrid working and opportunities across ADAS and AV domains.