Senior Triage Automation Engineer

Wayve; Sunnyvale (CA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation support

Visa sponsorship

Hybrid work model

Equity

Learning and development

Job summary

Wayve, based in Sunnyvale, is hiring for a Triage & Detective Automation Engineer to scale automation of triage workflows for autonomous-vehicle fleets. You will build pipelines and tooling using Python, SQL, Bash, and cloud-triggered automation, partnering with engineers to create robust, reusable solutions.

You will evaluate impact, document outputs, and help drive the roadmap while working in a hybrid model with regular in-office collaboration in Sunnyvale and occasional travel.

Qualifications

• 3+ years working with complex technical systems, ideally in robotics or autonomous vehicles.
• Strong in Python, SQL, and Bash or shell scripting; comfortable in remote Linux environments.
• Experience building or maintaining data pipelines, notebooks, or cloud-triggered automation.

Responsibilities

• Observe, document, and measure current Triage and Detective workflows to identify automation opportunities.
• Build automation pipelines, triage bots, classifiers, and workflow tooling.
• Partner with Detective Engineers to turn scripts into reusable tools.
• Validate automation accuracy, reliability, and outputs; document purpose and limitations.
• Track triage quality and throughput to demonstrate impact and guide the roadmap.

Skills

Python

SQL

Bash

Linux

Data pipelines

Communication

Tools

Jira

Confluence

GitLab

Bitbucket

Databricks

Jupyter

Azure

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.

About our Engineering Teams

Wayve’s engineering teams are building the AI, robotics, simulation, data, and systems foundations needed to deploy a generalisable AI Driver safely and at scale.

About Triage

The Triage and Detective Engineering teams identify, understand, and help resolve issues across Wayve’s test and on-road fleets. This role scales that work by turning repeated manual investigation into reliable automation, reusable tooling, and measurable workflows.

Your day-to-day

• Observe, document, and measure current Triage and Detective workflows to identify high-value automation opportunities.
• Build automation pipelines, triage bots, behavioural classifiers, and workflow tooling.
• Partner with Detective Engineers to turn one-off scripts into robust, reusable tools.
• Validate automation accuracy, reliability, suggested classifications, and root-cause outputs.
• Document each automation’s purpose, operation, expected outputs, and limitations.
• Track triage quality and throughput to demonstrate impact and guide the roadmap.
• Join regular triage and calibration sessions to stay close to the work being automated.

What you’ll be working on

• Business-critical tooling used by Triage Specialists and Detective Engineers every week.
• Automation that reduces manual analysis and accelerates issue identification across autonomous-vehicle fleets.
• Productised pipelines spanning Python, SQL, Bash, Linux, notebooks, cloud tooling, and issue-management systems.
• Cross-functional problems at the intersection of safety, machine learning, software engineering, and operations.

You should apply if

• You have 3+ years working with complex technical systems, ideally in robotics or autonomous vehicles.
• You are strong in Python, SQL, and Bash or shell scripting and comfortable in remote Linux environments.
• You have built or maintained data pipelines, notebooks, or cloud-triggered automation.
• You can take an ambiguous manual process, decide what is worth automating, and own delivery end-to-end.
• You communicate technical problems clearly and work effectively with both technical and non-technical partners.
• Experience with Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket or GitLab, Databricks or Jupyter is valuable; ML classifiers, web tooling, or Azure experience is a plus.

Not ticking every box? That’s totally okay!

If you’re passionate about autonomy and keen to learn, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every requirement.

More about Wayve

Wayve is building the leading AI platform for autonomous driving. We are pioneering an end-to-end AI approach that enables vehicles to learn directly from real-world experience, developing the ability to adapt, generalise and improve at scale.

Our ambition is to make autonomy universal. Wayve’s mapless and hardware-agnostic AI platform integrates with global OEM partners, enabling continuous software evolution from L2+ through to L4.

How we work - Locations & Flexible Working

This role is based in Sunnyvale and follows Wayve’s hybrid working model. The role requires regular in-office collaboration and may include domestic and international travel, including visits to London.

The Interview Process

• Initial call / recruiter screen (25 min)
• Hiring Manager Screen (30 min)
• Technical interviews covering workflow development, system design, and automation/programming
• Final interview focused on mission and values alignment (30 min)

We’ll always explain the format and work around your availability.

What’s in it for you (location dependent)

• Salaries benchmarked against the market annually
• Meaningful equity
• Relocation support and visa sponsorship where applicable
• Hybrid working and access to vehicle workshops and labs
• Learning and development support
• Comprehensive location-dependent health, family, retirement, and wellbeing benefits

A quick, honest note before you apply.

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.

If that sounds like the kind of problem you want to spend your time on, we’d really like to hear from you.

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. To learn more about what drives us, visit Values at Wayve

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.