Senior Embedded Systems Engineer: Performance & Profiling

Wayve; Sacramento (CA); Hybrid; USD 210,000 - 267,000; Full time

Job summary

Wayve in Sunnyvale, CA, is seeking a highly capable Robot Software Engineer to join the Runtime Platform and Embodied AI teams. You will help build a reliable, scalable software stack for on‑road experimentation and model development, ensuring efficient compute use across the fleet.

You will analyze latency, instrument code, and collaborate with cross‑functional teams to optimize performance, reduce bottlenecks, and support new features that advance autonomous driving capabilities.

Qualifications

• High-performance embedded Linux software development in C++.
• Experience profiling and optimizing system bottlenecks.
• Strong understanding of OS scheduling and computer architecture.

Responsibilities

• Investigate latency and performance bottlenecks across the software stack.
• Instrument code with profiling tools to collect performance data.
• Integrate and evaluate new profiling tools to benchmark system performance.
• Collaborate with multiple teams to understand pain points and prioritize optimization.
• Optimize critical code paths to improve runtime efficiency and reduce latency.

Skills

Embedded Linux

C++

Performance profiling

OS scheduling

Thread synchronization

Tools

NV NSight

Grafana

Datadog

Databricks

Momentics

Job description

Wayve in Sunnyvale, CA, is seeking a highly capable Robot Software Engineer to join the Runtime Platform and Embodied AI teams. You will help build a reliable, scalable software stack for on‑road experimentation and model development, ensuring efficient compute use across the fleet.

You will analyze latency, instrument code, and collaborate with cross‑functional teams to optimize performance, reduce bottlenecks, and support new features that advance autonomous driving capabilities.