Robotaxi Systems Engineer — Driverless Vehicle Architect

Socket.dev; Sunnyvale (CA); Hybrid; USD 210,000 - 311,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work policy

Equity package

Job summary

Wayve in Sunnyvale, CA is seeking a hands-on Systems Engineer for its Robotaxi program. You will translate a reference architecture into concrete requirements, interfaces, and verification-ready outputs, collaborating with OEMs, Tier1s, and Robotaxi partners to define boundaries and architecture.

You will own defined scope across vehicle, ADS, compute, and offboard services, contributing to safety, redundancy, and efficient integration in a hybrid work environment.

Qualifications

• Experience designing and deploying Robotaxi or production-intent L4 systems.
• Ability to decompose use cases into system requirements and interfaces.
• Experience defining system boundaries across multiple partners (OEMs, Tier1, operators).
• Hands-on vehicle or robotic-system integration experience.
• Familiarity with safety concepts and evidence.
• Ability to communicate complex designs in diagrams and reviews.

Responsibilities

• Own the systems engineering for defined parts of the Robotaxi architecture — e.g. vehicle/ADS interfaces, Remote Assistance/offboard boundaries, or fleet/cloud integration.
• Translate use cases, operational concepts, and constraints into system requirements, interfaces, assumptions, and verification-ready specifications for the areas you own.
• Work directly with OEM, Tier1, and Robotaxi operator partners to define system and product boundaries together, including leading technical working sessions and design discussions with them.
• Apply the Robotaxi reference architecture to real vehicle programs across sensors, compute, ECU topology, vehicle interfaces, and degraded-operation behavior.
• Support implementation through technical reviews, bring-up planning, issue triage, and design-change impact analysis.
• Escalate cross-domain or cross-program trade-offs that go beyond your defined scope to the lead Robotaxi System Architect and relevant domain owners.

Skills

Robotaxi systems engineering

System decomposition & requirements

Cross-company boundary definition

Vehicle/ADS integration

Hardware-software integration

Safety concepts: redundancy, fail-oper

Communication of complex designs

Tools

Jama

MBSE/SysML

Job description

Wayve in Sunnyvale, CA is seeking a hands-on Systems Engineer for its Robotaxi program. You will translate a reference architecture into concrete requirements, interfaces, and verification-ready outputs, collaborating with OEMs, Tier1s, and Robotaxi partners to define boundaries and architecture.

You will own defined scope across vehicle, ADS, compute, and offboard services, contributing to safety, redundancy, and efficient integration in a hybrid work environment.