Software Engineer

EngineersOfAI; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Wayve is seeking a Software Engineer for its AI Libraries team to build and maintain scalable Python libraries and tools for ML engineers and researchers. You will design abstractions for data loading, distributed training, and model evaluation, while ensuring reliability and documentation.

Collaborate with ML teams to optimize training on large GPU clusters and cloud infrastructure, advancing Wayve’s autonomous driving platform with robust, scalable software.

Qualifications

• Proven ability to design and deliver software systems.
• Experience building tools or libraries for internal or external users.
• Strong testing, observability, maintainability practices.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable Python libraries and tools used by ML engineers and researchers across Wayve.
• Develop robust abstractions for data loading, distributed training, inference, checkpointing, and model evaluation workflows.
• Support training at scale across large GPU clusters and cloud-based infrastructure.
• Work closely with ML teams to understand user needs and create tools that are reliable, well-documented, observable, and easy to adopt.
• Improve engineering quality across ML systems through strong software architecture, testing, monitoring, and maintainability practices.
• Optimize data and training pipelines to support multi-modal data sources, including camera, radar, lidar, and other sensor data.
• Contribute to the evolution of Wayve’s AI platform as we scale our autonomous driving capabilities.

Skills

Python

Software architecture

Distributed computing

ML frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow)

Cloud platforms (Azure)

Testing & observability

Team collaboration

Tools

Azure

Job description

About us

Founded in 2017, Wayve is the leading developer of Embodied AI technology. Our advanced AI software and foundation models enable vehicles to perceive, understand, and navigate any complex environment, enhancing the usability and safety of automated driving systems.

Our vision is to create autonomy that propels the world forward. Our intelligent, mapless, and hardware-agnostic AI products are designed for automakers, accelerating the transition from assisted to automated driving. In our fast-paced environment big problems ignite us—we embrace uncertainty, leaning into complex challenges to unlock groundbreaking solutions. We aim high and stay humble in our pursuit of excellence, constantly learning and evolving as we pave the way for a smarter, safer future.

At Wayve, your contributions matter. We value diversity, embrace new perspectives, and foster an inclusive work environment; we back each other to deliver impact.

Make Wayve the experience that defines your career!

The role

We’re looking for a Software Engineer to join our AI Libraries team. This team builds and maintains the platforms, libraries, and tools that enable Wayve’s ML engineers and researchers to train, evaluate, and scale models efficiently.

This is a hands-on software engineering role focused on building stable, scalable, and modular systems that support large-scale ML development. You’ll work closely with ML teams across Wayve to understand their needs, design reusable abstractions, and improve the reliability, performance, and usability of our training infrastructure.

You’ll play a key role in maturing Wayve’s AI platform and helping bring autonomous driving technology into the hands of customers.

Key responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable Python libraries and tools used by ML engineers and researchers across Wayve.
• Develop robust abstractions for data loading, distributed training, inference, checkpointing, and model evaluation workflows.
• Support training at scale across large GPU clusters and cloud-based infrastructure.
• Work closely with ML teams to understand user needs and create tools that are reliable, well-documented, observable, and easy to adopt.
• Improve engineering quality across ML systems through strong software architecture, testing, monitoring, and maintainability practices.
• Optimise data and training pipelines to support multi-modal data sources, including camera, radar, lidar, and other sensor data.
• Contribute to the evolution of Wayve’s AI platform as we scale our autonomous driving capabilities.

About you

We’re looking for a strong software engineer who enjoys building high-quality tools, platforms, and libraries for technical users. You care about clean abstractions, scalable architecture, reliability, and creating software that other engineers can depend on.

Essential skills

• Strong Python programming experience.Proven experience designing, building, and maintaining software systems from concept through to delivery.
• Strong software architecture and system design skills.Experience building tools, platforms, or libraries for internal or external users.Strong understanding of testing, observability, maintainability, and engineering best practices.
• Experience working with cloud environments, ideally Azure.
• Experience with concurrent, parallel, or distributed computing.
• Familiarity with ML frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, or PyTorch Lightning.
• Ability to work closely with technica