Autonomous Vehicle Forensics Investigator

EngineersOfAI; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Wayve is seeking an Autonomous Driving Forensics Engineer to join the Detectives team within the Model Integration and Release group. You will investigate issues across the full Wayve AV stack, identify root causes, and provide actionable insights to improve overall AV performance.

The role requires collaboration with hardware and software engineers, roboticists, platform developers, and operations teams. You will develop automated workflows and use simulations to expedite testing while

Qualifications

• 3+ years working with complex systems for robotics, autonomous vehicles, or comparable engineered systems.
• Excellent critical thinking and problem-solving skills to identify and resolve complex issues within robotics and AI systems.
• A systems-thinking mindset, comfortable investigating across the ful(l) stack.

Responsibilities

• Issue investigation & root cause analysis: Triage on-road data and conduct deep dives into recurring issues, identifying patterns across the fleet to pinpoint root causes across the robot, model, or software.
• Data analysis & communication: Analyse data and communicate insights clearly, using dashboards and/or visualisations to make complex issues easy for others to understand and act on.
• Cross-functional collaboration: Work closely with engineering, model development, operations, and safety teams, including taking rides in the vehicles, to understand issues and partner with system owners through to a resolution.
• Process & automation: Develop automated workflows and investigation playbooks that improve turnaround time and enable faster testing cycles.
• Simulation & testing: Leverage simulation and other offline tools to reproduce and debug issues, minimising the need for fleet resources.
• Breadth of work: Provide investigative and systems engineering support across a broad and evolving range of problems, from new vehicle platforms to emerging programmes and release testing.
• Incident response: Investigate on-road incidents to establish what happened and why, feeding lessons back to the relevant teams and strengthening our wider safety culture.

Skills

Robotics systems

Critical thinking

Problem solving

Systems thinking

Job description

Wayve is seeking an Autonomous Driving Forensics Engineer to join the Detectives team within the Model Integration and Release group. You will investigate issues across the full Wayve AV stack, identify root causes, and provide actionable insights to improve overall AV performance.

The role requires collaboration with hardware and software engineers, roboticists, platform developers, and operations teams. You will develop automated workflows and use simulations to expedite testing while