DevOps Engineer, CI/CD

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

Benefits offered by this job

Meaningful equity

Relocation support and visa sponsorhip

Competitive market salary benchmarking

Job summary

Wayve is building the leading AI platform for autonomous driving, combining embodied AI with scalable deployment to power vehicles anywhere. Our DevOps teams design and operate the CI/CD infrastructure that underpins Wayve's software lifecycle, enabling faster, more reliable builds and releases across offices worldwide.

The role sits in a hybrid setup, with main hubs in London and other global locations. If you enjoy solving complex infra problems and collaborating with engineering teams, this

Qualifications

• At least three years of experience in DevOps, build engineering, CI/CD, or a related engineering role.
• Hands-on experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and automation systems.
• Experience with platforms such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Buildkite, Azure DevOps.
• Understand build concepts such as caching, dependency management, incremental builds, and reproducible builds.
• Comfortable working with Linux, Git, and shell scripting.
• Develop tools/automation using Python, Bash, Go, or similar languages.
• Enjoy solving complex infrastructure problems and collaborating with engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Build, maintain, and improve CI/CD pipelines across development, testing, and release workflows.
• Operate and scale build agents, runners, artifact storage, and supporting services.
• Monitor and troubleshoot build and pipeline failures, identifying root causes and implementing long-term improvements.
• Partner with software engineers to remove workflow bottlenecks and shorten build and test feedback times.
• Develop tooling and automation that makes our engineering systems easier and more reliable to use.
• Improve build speed, reliability, scalability, and reproducibility.
• Design caching, dependency management, and incremental builds.
• Strengthen resilience, security, and observability of CI/CD infrastructure.
• Create self-service tooling enabling teams to manage and evolve their pipelines.
• Help shape the future architecture of Wayve's build and continuous-delivery platforms.

Skills

CI/CD pipelines

Linux

Git

Shell scripting

Python

Go

Bash

Build tooling

Tools

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Jenkins

Buildkite

Azure DevOps

Job description

Before the detail, here's the challenge you'd help us solve. We build the embodied intelligence that moves real vehicles safely, and the ecosystem a billion machines will run on in the future. Very few people in AI can say this. Every role here, whatever the team, plugs into that. Here's what this particular role covers.

About our DevOps Teams

Our team builds and operates the infrastructure, tooling, and services that underpin Wayve's software development lifecycle. We work closely with engineering teams across the organisation to make building, testing, and releasing software faster, more reliable, and easier to scale. As Wayve's engineering workloads grow, we evolve the CI/CD architecture and developer experience needed to support them.

Your day-to-day

• Build, maintain, and improve CI/CD pipelines across development, testing, and release workflows.
• Operate and scale build agents, runners, artifact storage, and supporting services.
• Monitor and troubleshoot build and pipeline failures, identifying root causes and implementing long-term improvements.
• Partner with software engineers to remove workflow bottlenecks and shorten build and test feedback times.
• Develop tooling and automation that makes our engineering systems easier and more reliable to use.

What you'll be working on

• Improving build speed, reliability, scalability, and reproducibility.
• Designing effective approaches to caching, dependency management, and incremental builds.
• Strengthening the resilience, security, and observability of our CI/CD infrastructure.
• Creating self-service tooling that enables teams to manage and evolve their own pipelines.
• Helping shape the future architecture of Wayve's build and continuous-delivery platforms.

You should apply if

• You have at least three years of experience in DevOps, build engineering, CI/CD, developer infrastructure, or a related engineering role.
• You have hands-on experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and automation systems.
• You have worked with platforms such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Buildkite, Azure DevOps, or similar.
• You understand build concepts such as caching, dependency management, incremental builds, and reproducible builds.
• You are confident working with Linux, Git, and shell scripting.
• You can develop tools and automation using Python, Bash, Go, or a similar language.
• You enjoy solving complex infrastructure problems and working collaboratively with engineering teams.

Not ticking every box? That's totally okay! If you're passionate about autonomy and keen to learn, we encourage you to apply even if you don't meet every requirement.

More about Wayve:

Wayve is building the leading AI platform for autonomous driving. We are pioneering an end to end AI approach that enables vehicles to learn directly from real world experience, developing the ability to adapt, generalise and improve at scale. Instead of relying on hand coded rules or pre mapped environments, our AI Driver learns to drive by understanding the world around it. The result is technology that navigates complex urban environments with intelligence, precision and natural flow, unlocking meaningful advances in both safety and efficiency. We believe autonomy represents a once in a generation transformation in how people and goods move, comparable to the shift from horses to cars, and from human driven vehicles to intelligent machines. Our ambition is to make autonomy universal. Wayve's mapless and hardware agnostic AI platform integrates with global OEM partners, enabling continuous software evolution and unlocking advanced levels of automation from L2 plus through to L4 as our core AI model scales. In a race increasingly defined by intelligence and real world learning, Wayve is taking a distinct approach, building a generalisable driving intelligence that can power any vehicle, anywhere. By combining embodied AI with scalable deployment, we are creating technology that can be shaped to each OEM brand and driver experience, accelerating the transition to a safer, more intelligent future of mobility.

How we work - Locations & Flexible Working:

Our main hubs are in London, Sunnyvale, Yokohama, Herzliya, Vancouver and Leonberg. We operate a hybrid working model that combines in-person collaboration in our dedicated office spaces with focused time working remotely. This gives our teams the connection and energy of working together, alongside the flexibility to do their best work in a way that fits their lives.

The Interview Process:

Our process is clear and respectful of your time:

• Initial call / recruiter screen
• Competency Interviews
• Deep-dive technical interviews
• Final interview

We'll always explain the format and work around your availability.

What's in it for you (Location dependant):

• Salaries benchmarked against the market annually
• Meaningful equity, sharing in the ownership and long term success of Wayve
• Relocation support and visa sponsorship where