Autonomous Vehicle Controls Engineer (Real-Time)

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

Job summary

Wayve is seeking a highly capable expert to develop and refine vehicle trajectory and motion controllers that translate AI Driver outputs into safe, smooth vehicle motion across ADAS and AV platforms. You will implement real-time C++ control software, run extensive simulations, and test in diverse driving scenarios to advance autonomous driving tech.

The role emphasizes combining principled control approaches with production-grade software, real-time performance, and collaboration across Wayve

Qualifications

• Strong fundamentals in control theory and at least one of optimization, MPC, numerical methods or dynamical systems.
• Practical experience building and validating control or motion systems on real-world hardware.
• Strong software engineering skills with production-ready C++ implementations.
• Experience with latency-sensitive or real-time software.
• Ability to reason about and debug complex robotic systems across software and hardware.

Responsibilities

• Develop, integrate, tune, and validate control and trajectory-generation algorithms across vehicle platforms and conditions.
• Maintain and evolve controls software architecture connecting AI outputs to real-time actuation and feedback.
• Implement production-quality, latency-sensitive control software in C++ for prototypes and production vehicles.
• Use simulation, closed-loop evaluation and on-road testing to characterize controller behaviour and diagnose issues.
• Collaborate with Wayve teams to define interfaces and integrate with adjacent systems for new platforms and features.

Skills

Control theory

Optimization

Model predictive control

Numerical methods

Dynamical systems

Production-quality C++

Real-time software

System debugging

Job description

Wayve is seeking a highly capable expert to develop and refine vehicle trajectory and motion controllers that translate AI Driver outputs into safe, smooth vehicle motion across ADAS and AV platforms. You will implement real-time C++ control software, run extensive simulations, and test in diverse driving scenarios to advance autonomous driving tech.

The role emphasizes combining principled control approaches with production-grade software, real-time performance, and collaboration across Wayve