Senior Software Engineer - Platform Integration, Robot Software
Wayve
- Location
- Sunnyvale
- Work model
- On-Site
- Level
- Senior
- Salary
- $209k – $260k/yr
- Posted
- 2h ago
Skills
About this role
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 a Software Engineer on the Platform Integration Team, you will play a key role in the hands-on software bring-up of new vehicle programs, helping turn them into stable, reliable robot systems. Alongside integration activities, you’ll design and deliver improvements to vehicle-facing software components and frameworks that make future integrations faster, more predictable, and less bespoke. This is a highly technical engineering role within our Robot Software group, where your work directly enables safe, scalable deployment across multiple vehicle programs
Key responsibilities
• Contribute to the software bring-up of new vehicle programs, supporting bench, HIL, and on-vehicle integration activities, including hands-on work at international test locations.
• Design, develop, and maintain vehicle-facing software components and shared frameworks that improve reliability, abstraction, and reuse across vehicle programs.
• Improve the stability of early-stage vehicles by diagnosing integration issues, implementing fixes where appropriate, and driving issues through to resolution with relevant teams.
• Identify and deliver architectural improvements that reduce bespoke changes and make future vehicle integrations faster and more predictable.
• Build and maintain tooling, diagnostics, and metrics to monitor robot software performance and enable continuous reliability improvements.
• Produce clear documentation and runbooks to support knowledge transfer and long-term maintainability.
• Collaborate closely with hardware, safety, controls, calibration, and reliability teams to ensure smooth and scalable vehicle software integration.
About you
In order to set you up for success as a Software Engineer on the Platform Integration Team at Wayve, we’re looking for the following skills and experience:
Essential
• Strong software development experience in C++, Python, and/or Rust, with a track record of delivering production-quality systems.
• Experience developing and debugging software on Linux-based robotic or automotive platforms, including multi-process or distributed systems.
• Experience with ROS2 or similar robotics middleware, including node development, message interfaces, and system integration.
• Hands-on experience integrating software with vehicle or embedded hardware, including debugging using logs, telemetry, and on-target testing.
• Practical experience working with vehicle sensors, including topics such as calibration, synchronisation, and data validation.
• Experience working with automotive-grade high-performance compute platforms