Senior Runtime Platform Engineer-Embedded C++ for Autonomy

Wayve; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Equity and long-term ownership

Relocation and visa sponsorship where‑

Learning & development budgets

Health insurance & dental

Maternity/paternity leave

Team socials and wellbeing

Job summary

Wayve is seeking a Software Engineer, Runtime Platform to join our embedded systems team in London. You will design, implement, test, and maintain runtime-platform components in C++, with a focus on low latency, high reliability, and close coupling to the OS.

You’ll work with robotics and autonomy stacks across multiple teams to improve performance and developer experience. You'll profile CPU/memory, diagnose issues, and contribute to tooling, observability, and platform roadmaps.

Qualifications

• Strong modern C++ experience; solid foundation in systems programming.
• Understanding of Linux processes, threads, memory, scheduling, networking, and IPC.
• Ability to debug complex performance and reliability problems across multiple software layers.
• Experience building production software for embedded, robotics, automotive, infrastructure, or distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, test, and maintain runtime-platform components in C++.
• Profile and debug CPU, memory, latency, scheduling, I/O, and inter-process communication issues.
• Build observability and diagnostics for software running on remote vehicle compute.
• Work with application teams to understand performance and reliability needs.
• Improve developer workflows for building, deploying, testing, and troubleshooting onboard services.
• Contribute to design reviews, documentation, testing strategy, and platform roadmaps.
• Application lifecycle and service management on embedded Linux or QNX systems.

Skills

Modern C++

Systems programming

IPC

Performance profiling

Tools

ROS2

QNX

Embedded Linux

Job description

Wayve is seeking a Software Engineer, Runtime Platform to join our embedded systems team in London. You will design, implement, test, and maintain runtime-platform components in C++, with a focus on low latency, high reliability, and close coupling to the OS.

You’ll work with robotics and autonomy stacks across multiple teams to improve performance and developer experience. You'll profile CPU/memory, diagnose issues, and contribute to tooling, observability, and platform roadmaps.