Senior Software Engineer, Runtime Platform (Hybrid)

Wayve; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Meaningful equity

Relocation support and visa where/app.

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

Wayve is building the leading AI platform for autonomous driving, with a hybrid workplace across London and global hubs. You will join the Robot Software team, focusing on the Runtime Platform that powers robust onboard systems and high-throughput, low-latency communication in our autonomous vehicles.

You’ll design and evolve shared runtime components, debug performance bottlenecks, and help steer architectural decisions across teams.

Qualifications

• Strong software-development experience in C++ across large, embedded-like stacks.
• Proven ability to profile and optimise performance to meet latency and throughput targets.
• Solid understanding of OS scheduling, memory hierarchy, and multi-threading.
• Experience maintaining middleware or shared runtime services is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain shared onboard application frameworks and developer interfaces.
• Develop application lifecycle management, health monitoring, fault reporting, and runtime diagnostics.
• Evolve communication middleware and support new OSes and compute platforms.
• Investigate latency and performance bottlenecks across the onboard software stack.
• Instrument software with profiling tools and metrics to identify optimisation opportunities.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to translate performance data into architectural improvements.
• Work with internal teams and middleware suppliers to resolve integration issues and establish shared APIs and best practices.

Skills

C++

Performance profiling

OS scheduling

Middleware design

Interface design

Cross-team collaboration

Tools

Nsight

Lumos

tegrastat

Grafana

Databricks

Datadog

QNX

Momentics

Job description

Wayve is building the leading AI platform for autonomous driving, with a hybrid workplace across London and global hubs. You will join the Robot Software team, focusing on the Runtime Platform that powers robust onboard systems and high-throughput, low-latency communication in our autonomous vehicles.

You’ll design and evolve shared runtime components, debug performance bottlenecks, and help steer architectural decisions across teams.