Senior Forensics Engineer

Lindus Health; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Wayve is hiring an Autonomous Driving Forensics Engineer to investigate issues across the full AV stack, identify root causes, and provide actionable insight to improve performance. You will work across hardware, software, and models with engineers, robotists, and operations teams.

You will build automated workflows, run simulations, and participate in on-road incident analyses to strengthen safety culture and drive efficient testing cycles.

Qualifications

• 3+ years working with complex systems in robotics, autonomous vehicles, or comparable engineered systems.
• Excellent critical thinking and problem-solving skills to identify and resolve complex issues.
• A systems-thinking mindset, comfortable investigating across the full stack: hardware, software, and models.
• Experience designing real-world experiments to prove or disprove hypotheses.
• Great communication skills, able to explain complex technical problems to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience with writing Python for data analysis; scripts for diverse analytics tasks.

Responsibilities

• Triage on-road data and conduct deep dives into recurring issues to identify patterns across the fleet.
• Analyse data and communicate insights clearly using dashboards or visualisations.
• Work closely with engineering, model development, operations, and safety teams to reach a resolution.
• Develop automated workflows and investigation playbooks to improve turnaround time.
• Leverage simulation and offline tools to reproduce and debug issues, minimizing fleet resource use.
• Provide investigative and systems engineering support across a broad range of problems as the fleet grows.
• Investigate on-road incidents to derive lessons for safety culture.

Skills

Complex systems

Critical thinking

Systems thinking

Experiment design

Communication

Python data analysis

Influence decisions

Safety awareness

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

As an Autonomous Driving Forensics Engineer in our Detectives team, part of the Model Integration and Release group, you will investigate issues that arise across the full Wayve AV stack. Working closely with teams across the business, you will identify root causes efficiently, test solutions thoroughly, and provide actionable insight that improves overall AV performance.

Your role sits at the heart of performance improvement, identifying systemic issues within the full end-to-end stack of our AV vehicles. To do so you will work cross-functionally, interacting with all areas of the business, from hardware and software engineers to roboticists, platform developers, model development and operational teams.

We're looking for someone curious, pragmatic, and system-minded: a broad thinker who is comfortable operating with limited information, thrives outside their comfort zone, and lets facts and data drive their conclusions. Just as important is the ability to communicate clearly and build strong working relationships across teams, bringing people with you as you work towards an answer.

Key responsibilities:

• Issue investigation & root cause analysis: Triage on-road data and conduct deep dives into recurring issues, identifying patterns across the fleet to pinpoint root causes across the robot, model, or software.
• Data analysis & communication: Analyse data and communicate insights clearly, using dashboards and/or visualisations to make complex issues easy for others to understand and act on.
• Cross-functional collaboration: Work closely with engineering, model development, operations, and safety teams, including taking rides in the vehicles, to understand issues and partner with system owners through to a resolution.
• Process & automation: Develop automated workflows and investigation playbooks that improve turnaround time and enable faster testing cycles.
• Simulation & testing: Leverage simulation and other offline tools to reproduce and debug issues, minimising the need for fleet resources.
• Breadth of work: Provide investigative and systems engineering support across a broad and evolving range of problems, from new vehicle platforms to emerging programmes and release testing, as the technology and fleet grow.
• Incident response: Investigate on-road incidents to establish what happened and why, feeding lessons back to the relevant teams and strengthening our wider safety culture.

About you

In order to set you up for success as an Autonomous Driving Forensics Engineer at Wayve, we're looking for the following skills and experience.

Essential

• 3+ years working with complex systems for robotics, autonomous vehicles, or comparable engineered systems.
• Excellent critical thinking and problem-solving skills to identify and resolve complex issues within robotics and AI systems.
• A systems-thinking mindset, comfortable investigating across the full stack, spanning hardware, software, and models.
• Prior experience designing real-world experiments to prove or disprove hypotheses.
• Great communication skills, able to explain complex technical problems to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experienced with writing Python, particularly for data analysis; confident in writing scripts for a wide variety of analytic use cases, leveraging AI tools to work more efficiently.
• A track record of influencing team and company direction through your findings.
• A safety-conscious mindset, alert to when an issue carries safety implications and comfortable raising it.

Desirable

• Practical experience applying and evaluating machine learning models.
• Experience working with safety-critical systems.
• Experience in the automotive, robotics, or AI industries.
• A track record of promoting statistical rigour and experimental best practices in your prior roles.
• Experience working in a fast-moving tech company or startup.

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.

What we offer you

• The chance to be part of a truly mission driven organisation and an opportunity to shape