Software Engineer - Drive-by-Wire, Robot Software

Wayve; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 115,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Relocation & visa support

Hybrid work model

Learning budget

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

Wayve in London is seeking a Software Engineer for the Platform Integration team to combine hands-on vehicle work with production software development. You will help bring up new vehicle programs and build reusable components that speed future integrations.

You’ll collaborate across hardware, safety, controls, calibration and reliability teams, diagnose issues across software and hardware, and develop diagnostics, tooling, and runbooks to support scalable deployments.

Qualifications

• Experience developing production-quality software on Linux-based robotic, embedded, or automotive platforms.
• Proficient in C++, Python, or Rust and ROS2 or similar middleware.
• Hands-on experience integrating software with vehicle or embedded hardware and diagnosing complex issues.

Responsibilities

• Support software bring-up on benches, HiL systems, and vehicles, including work at international test locations.
• Develop vehicle-facing software components and shared frameworks.
• Diagnose integration issues across software and hardware boundaries and drive them through resolution.
• Identify architectural improvements that reduce bespoke work and improve reuse.
• Build diagnostics, tooling, and metrics for robot-software reliability and performance.
• Produce clear documentation and runbooks for long-term supportability.
• Collaborate with hardware, safety, controls, calibration, and reliability teams.

Skills

C++

Python

Rust

Tools

ROS2

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.

About our Engineering Teams

Wayve's Robot Software group turns new vehicle programs into stable, reliable robot systems. The Platform Integration team works at the boundary between onboard software and vehicle hardware, bringing up new platforms while building reusable components and frameworks that make every future integration faster and more predictable.

As a Software Engineer on the Platform Integration team, you'll combine hands-on vehicle and bench work with production software development. Your work will directly enable safe, scalable deployment across multiple vehicle programs.

Your day-to-day

• Support software bring-up on benches, HiL systems, and vehicles, including work at international test locations.
• Develop and maintain vehicle-facing software components and shared frameworks.
• Diagnose integration issues across software and hardware boundaries and drive them through resolution.
• Identify architectural improvements that reduce bespoke work and improve reuse.
• Build diagnostics, tooling, and metrics for robot-software reliability and performance.
• Produce clear documentation and runbooks for long-term supportability.
• Collaborate with hardware, safety, controls, calibration, and reliability teams.

What you’ll be working on

• New vehicle-program bring-up across embedded compute, sensors, networks, and software services.
• Linux-based robotic and automotive systems with multi-process and distributed architectures.
• ROS2 or similar middleware, node development, message interfaces, and system integration.
• Sensor calibration, synchronisation, data validation, and system-level debugging.
• Automotive-grade compute platforms such as NVIDIA DRIVE and Qualcomm Snapdragon Ride.
• Vehicle communication systems including CAN and Automotive Ethernet.
• Shared abstractions and frameworks that improve reliability across programs.

You should apply if

• You have strong software-development experience in C++, Python, or Rust.
• You have delivered production-quality software on Linux-based robotic, embedded, or automotive platforms.
• You understand ROS2 or similar robotics middleware and distributed-system integration.
• You have hands-on experience integrating software with vehicle or embedded hardware.
• You can diagnose complex problems using logs, telemetry, on-target tests, and systematic experimentation.
• You understand vehicle sensors, networking, and the practical realities of platform bring-up.
• Experience with drive-by-wire systems, CAN tools, shared frameworks, HiL or simulation, functional safety, technical documentation, or observability would be valuable.

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.

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

• Initial recruiter screen - 25 mins
• Competency Interviews - Programming and technical domain (2 hours)
• Deep-dive technical interviews - Programming and hiring-manager/team fit (2 hours)
• Final interview - Mission and values alignment (30 mins)

What’s in it for you (Location dependent)

• Salaries benchmarked against the market annually
• Meaningful equity, sharing in the ownership and long term success of Wayve
• Relocation support and visa sponsorship where applicable
• Hybrid working, core hours and the chance to work hands on in vehicle workshops and labs
• Learning and development budgets with support for training, conferences and growth
• Comprehensive benefits including health insurance, dental, enhanced maternity and paternity leave, retirement or pension where applicable, access to therapists, wellbeing partnerships, team social