Full Stack Software Engineer, Evaluation Tools

Socket.dev; Sunnyvale (CA); Hybrid; USD 209,000 - 266,000; Full time

Job summary

Wayve is seeking a Fullstack Software Engineer in Sunnyvale, CA, to own features end-to-end across the stack, from user needs to validated outcomes. You will build robust, high-performance APIs and production-grade fullstack systems, collaborating with users, shaping ideas, and ensuring reliability and maintainability in a fast-paced environment.

The role emphasizes collaboration across time zones, the use of AI-augmented workflows, and a hybrid work policy with a competitive compensation

Qualifications

• Strong development skills in Python, TypeScript, and JavaScript with React or similar front-end frameworks.
• Strong SQL skills with understanding of database design and optimization.
• Experience designing and building production-level fullstack systems and reliable, high-performance APIs.
• Track record of building robust, maintainable systems and applying engineering best practices.
• Excellent communication and collaboration across time zones.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end features across the stack, from user needs to validated outcomes.
• Build robust, high-performance APIs and production-grade fullstack systems.
• Collaborate with users to understand pain points and measure success.
• Focus on reliability, performance, and maintainability in code and architecture.
• Contribute to architectural decisions that scale with the team’s products.

Skills

Python

TypeScript

JavaScript

React

SQL

APIs

Tools

Databricks

Spark

Flyte

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

The Evaluation Tools group builds the internal products that accelerate the full AI Driver development loop, from defining a test to debugging model behaviour. Model developers, researchers and QA engineers across Wayve depend on our tools to understand driving performance and scale evaluation to millions of scenarios, and every major model release runs through them.

You'll join the Search & Agents squad in Sunnyvale. We build the search, scenario mining and agentic tooling that lets anyone find the right driving scenarios and turn them into tests without writing SQL. Our work is the entry point to a fully agentic development loop: identify an issue -> mine for scenarios -> build and run a test suite -> root-cause the failure -> retrain -> repeat.

You'll work across the stack and own features end-to-end: talking to users, shaping ideas, building robust software, and validating impact. Evaluation is an evolving challenge, so you'll also have plenty of opportunity to define new projects as user needs emerge.

Why this role matters

• Make natural language scenario search reliable and self-service, so finding test data no longer depends on scarce SQL and mining expertise
• Take scenario mining from proof-of-concept to production scale, unlocking certification-grade test creation for teams like Validation
• Extend the evaluation MCP so agents can run search-to-test workflows end to end
• Build trust in search and mining results, so teams can make fast, confident decisions grounded in clear evidence

Challenges you will own

• Build fullstack features across search, scenario mining, agentic tooling, and the web applications our users work in to curate scenarios and build test suites
• Work directly with users to understand pain points, then define and measure what success looks like (adoption, time saved, reliability) before you build
• Ship high-quality software with strong attention to reliability, performance and maintainability
• Contribute to architectural decisions that scale across the team’s products
• Use AI tools to improve how we build, from speeding up development to refining team workflows and product quality

About you

In order to set you up for success as a Fullstack Software Engineer at Wayve, we're looking for the following skills and experience.

Essential

• Strong development skills in Python, TypeScript, and JavaScript, with experience using React or similar front-end frameworks
• Strong SQL skills with a solid understanding of database design and optimisation
• Experience designing and building production-level fullstack systems and reliable, high-performance APIs
• Track record of building robust, maintainable systems and applying engineering best practices
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, including working effectively across time zones
• Comfortable working independently in a fast-paced, high-context, ambiguous environment
• You are a power user of AI development tools and have a mindset for building AI-augmented workflows

Desirable

• Experience with search, embeddings or retrieval systems
• Experience with the Databricks platform, and large-scale data processing with Spark or similar
• Experience with job orchestration frameworks such as Flyte
• Experience building agentic or LLM-powered developer tools (e.g. MCP servers)
• Experience building tools for technical users (ML, robotics, infrastructure)
• Experience with scientific data visualisation or complex data interfaces
• This role is a full-time role based in Sunnyvale, CA (hybrid) and the reasonably estimated salary for this role ranges from $209,000 to 266,000, plus a competitive equity package. Actual compensation is based on the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience. At Wayve we want the best of all worlds so we operate a hybrid working policy that combines time together in our offices and workshops to fuel innovation, culture, relationships and learning, and time spent working from home. We operate core working hours so you can determine the schedule that works best for you and your team.

Wayve is committed to creating an inclusive interview experience. If you require any accommodations or adjustments to participate fully in our interview process, please let us know.

We understand that everyone has a unique set of skills and experiences and that not everyone will meet all of the requirements listed above. If you’re passionate about self-driving cars and think you have what it takes to make a positive impact on the world, we encourage you to apply.

At Wayve we're committed to creating a diverse, fair and respectful culture that is inclusive of everyone based on their unique skills and perspectives, and regardless of sex, race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding) or any other basis as protected by applicable law.

For more information visit Careers at Wayve.

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DISCLAIMER: We will not ask about marriage or pregnancy, care responsibilities or disabilities in any of our job adverts or interviews. However, we do look to capture information about care responsibilities, and disabilities among other diversity information as part of an optional DEI Monitoring form to help us identify areas of improvement in our hiring process and ensure that the process is inclusive and non-discriminatory.