Staff Robotics Engineer – Onboard Calibration & Estimation

Wayve; London (KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Wayve seeks a Robotics Software Engineer for the Online Calibration team to transform calibration and estimation methods into reliable, observable components running on constrained hardware. You will collaborate across calibration, state estimation, robot software, and hardware acceleration to shape the platform's architecture and roadmap.

You will deliver production-grade software, optimize for latency and memory, and build tests, simulations, and fleet-level observability to ensure safe and

Qualifications

• Strong practical expertise in sensor calibration, state estimation or a closely related robotics domain, including calibration of cameras, LiDAR, IMUs, vehicle parameters or multi-sensor systems.
• Strong understanding of filtering and estimation methods, such as Kalman-family filters, Bayesian estimation, smoothing, robust estimation or factor-graph optimisation.
• Strong modern C++ software-engineering skills and proficiency in Python for prototyping, analysis and test tooling.
• Experience productionising algorithm-heavy robotics software for vehicles, robots, drones, aerospace systems or comparable edge platforms, including clear lifecycle, failure-handling and recovery behaviour.
• Experience with asynchronous, high-throughput sensor data and hardware-accelerated pipelines, with the ability to optimise constrained compute and memory systems without losing correctness or debuggability.
• Strong software architecture, API design, testing, debugging and performance-profiling skills, with evidence of end-to-end ownership and effective cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Extend the capabilities of the existing online calibration node, delivering robust production software within the architecture and technical direction set by the team.
• Adapt and integrate suitable calibration and estimation algorithms for continuous or on-demand onboard execution.
• Develop reliable handling of asynchronous sensor data, accelerator-produced features and noisy, time-varying calibration parameters.
• Strengthen validation, gating, persistence and interfaces between the calibration node, onboard state, runtime consumers, logging and fleet-facing systems.
• Profile and optimise critical paths for constrained compute, memory, storage and latency budgets without compromising correctness or debuggability.
• Build comprehensive simulation, replay, bench and on-vehicle tests, and improve metrics, diagnostics and fleet-level observability across nominal and failure scenarios.

Skills

sensor calibration

state estimation

Kalman filters

Python

C++

productionising robotics software

asynchronous data processing

hardware-accelerated pipelines

software architecture

API design

testing & debugging

performance profiling

Tools

C++

Python

Job description

Wayve seeks a Robotics Software Engineer for the Online Calibration team to transform calibration and estimation methods into reliable, observable components running on constrained hardware. You will collaborate across calibration, state estimation, robot software, and hardware acceleration to shape the platform's architecture and roadmap.

You will deliver production-grade software, optimize for latency and memory, and build tests, simulations, and fleet-level observability to ensure safe and