Simulation Engineer — Autonomous Driving Systems

Wayve; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Wayve is building embodied intelligence for safe autonomous driving. The Core Simulation team develops end-to-end simulation that mirrors real driving, ensuring reproducibility and reliability across components and data.

You’ll work on production-grade C++ and Python code, integrating driving-stack components and validating results at scale. You’ll collaborate with Simulation, Robotics, Autonomy, Evaluation, Platform and Data teams to clarify requirements and resolve integration issues, driving

Qualifications

• Professional software development in a collaborative engineering environment.
• Strong C++ and Python skills with depth in at least one language.
• Experience integrating and debugging components in a complex software system.
• Experience in simulation (robotics or AV) or another complex systems domain.
• Experience integrating ML components (e.g. PyTorch models, CUDA).
• Strong fundamentals: testing, observability, maintainability.

Responsibilities

• Develop production-quality components in C++ and Python.
• Integrate driving-stack components and simulated robot systems.
• Test different simulation configurations, focusing on high-scale open-loop evaluation.
• Investigate differences between on-road and simulated execution across data and interfaces.
• Improve reproducibility, reliability, debugging and tooling.
• Profile workloads and contribute performance improvements.

Skills

C++

Python

Software engineering

Profiling

ML integration

Tools

PyTorch

CUDA

Linux

Job description

Wayve is building embodied intelligence for safe autonomous driving. The Core Simulation team develops end-to-end simulation that mirrors real driving, ensuring reproducibility and reliability across components and data.

You’ll work on production-grade C++ and Python code, integrating driving-stack components and validating results at scale. You’ll collaborate with Simulation, Robotics, Autonomy, Evaluation, Platform and Data teams to clarify requirements and resolve integration issues, driving