Platform Engineer, AI Enablement

Wayve; London (KY); On-site; USD 93,000 - 146,000; Full time

Job summary

Wayve is seeking a Platform Engineer on the AI Enablement team to build the infrastructure for safe, reliable, and cost-effective access to AI models and tools. You’ll develop a governed model-access layer, secure production environments, and reusable platform primitives while collaborating with Security, IT, and engineering teams.

You’ll own end-to-end platform initiatives, contribute to standards, and help teams adopt the platform with clear documentation and guided patterns in a fast-moving,

Qualifications

• 3+ years of software engineering experience building APIs, services, and developer tooling.
• Strong system-design fundamentals and infra decisions affecting multiple teams.
• Experience building and operating platforms or infrastructure used by other engineering teams.
• Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, and infrastructure as code.
• Familiarity with LLM APIs and the surrounding ecosystem, including model providers, gateways, MCP, agent frameworks, and retrieval-augmented generation.
• Experience building observability into distributed systems using metrics, tracing, and logging.
• A security-conscious approach, including experience with authentication, authorization, and auditability.
• A strong sense of ownership and comfort working in an ambiguous, fast-moving environment.
• Clear communication and documentation skills that enable other teams to self-serve.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate infrastructure for safe and cost-effective access to AI models and tools.
• Build the runtime, services, and developer tooling used to run agentic workflows in production.
• Create observability across cost, performance, reliability, and usage through metrics, tracing, and logging.
• Implement governance and safety controls that make AI use secure, compliant, and auditable.
• Develop reusable platform primitives, integrations, and guardrails that reduce one-off solutions.
• Contribute to standards and best practices for designing, building, and deploying agents.
• Automate infrastructure and deployment processes to keep the platform reliable and scalable.
• Partner with Security, IT, and engineering teams on platform integration, policy, and rollout.
• Help teams adopt the platform by troubleshooting issues, documenting patterns, and sharing what works.
• Educate colleagues on the AI platforms and tools available to them and how to use them.
• Own projects end to end and improve the platform based on real-world usage and feedback.
• Participate in the team’s on-call rotation, providing out-of-hours support for critical systems when required.

Skills

API development

System design

Platform/infrastructure

Cloud infrastructure

Kubernetes

IaC

LLM APIs

Observability

Security & audit

Ownership

Documentation

Communication

Tools

MCP

LLM gateway

Agent frameworks

Retrieval Augmented Generation

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.

Here’s what this particular role covers.

The role

As a Platform Engineer on Wayve’s AI Enablement team, you’ll build the infrastructure that gives people across the company safe, reliable, and cost-effective access to language models and AI agents.

You’ll help create a governed model-access layer and a secure production environment for agentic workflows, with safety, observability, and operational excellence built in from the start. Your work will span the full lifecycle—from defining problems and designing systems to implementation, deployment, and ongoing operation.

Working closely with Security, IT, and engineering teams, you’ll deliver platform capabilities that scale with the pace of AI adoption at Wayve. You’ll also support teams building agentic workflows, turning successful approaches into reusable patterns and helping colleagues understand what’s possible with the platform.

This is an opportunity to join an early platform team and shape how an AI company puts AI tools to work responsibly. Your technical decisions will influence infrastructure used across Wayve, giving you ownership, visibility, and impact beyond a typical infrastructure role.

Key responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate infrastructure that enables safe and cost-effective access to AI models and tools.
• Build the runtime, services, and developer tooling used to run agentic workflows in production.
• Create observability across cost, performance, reliability, and usage through metrics, tracing, and logging.
• Implement governance and safety controls that make AI use secure, compliant, and auditable.
• Develop reusable platform primitives, integrations, and guardrails that reduce one-off solutions.
• Contribute to standards and best practices for designing, building, and deploying agents.
• Automate infrastructure and deployment processes to keep the platform reliable and scalable.
• Partner with Security, IT, and engineering teams on platform integration, policy, and rollout.
• Help teams adopt the platform by troubleshooting issues, documenting patterns, and sharing what works.
• Educate colleagues on the AI platforms and tools available to them and how to use them effectively.
• Own projects end to end and improve the platform based on real-world usage and feedback.
• Participate in the team’s on-call rotation, providing out-of-hours support for critical systems when required.

About you

You’re a hands-on engineer who enjoys building reliable platforms for other teams. You’re comfortable navigating ambiguity, taking ownership across the full delivery lifecycle, and collaborating with technical and non-technical partners. You combine strong engineering fundamentals with curiosity about the fast-evolving AI tooling ecosystem.

Essential skills and experience

• 3+ years of software engineering experience building APIs, services, and developer tooling.
• Strong system-design fundamentals and experience making infrastructure decisions that affect multiple teams.
• Experience building and operating platforms or infrastructure used by other engineering teams.
• Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, and infrastructure as code.
• Familiarity with LLM APIs and the surrounding ecosystem, including model providers, gateways, MCP, agent frameworks, and retrieval-augmented generation.
• Experience building observability into distributed systems using metrics, tracing, and logging.
• A security-conscious approach, including experience with authentication, authorization, and auditability.
• A strong sense of ownership and comfort working in an ambiguous, fast-moving environment.
• Clear communication and documentation skills that enable other teams to self-serve.

Desirable skills and experience

• Experience operating an LLM gateway or model-routing layer in production, including cost controls and budget enforcement.
• Experience with agent orchestration frameworks or tool-calling protocols such as MCP.
• Exposure to AI governance, model risk management, or responsible AI practices.
• Experience working in an organisation with a strong safety culture, ideally in autonomy, robotics, or another safety-critical field.

Wayve is not a mature, fully-structured place with the playbook already written. Much of how we work is still being written, and if you join, you’ll help write it. That suits people who want real ownership more than people who need a settled structure from day one.