Wayve
Robotics · AV foundation models
- HQ
- London, GB
- Founded
- 2017
- Website
- wayve.ai
Currently tracking 29 active AI roles, up 373% versus the prior 4 weeks. Primary focus: Ship · Engineering. Salary range $284k–$466k (avg $363k).
Wayve currently has 32 active AI-related job listings. The majority of these roles, 59%, are in the application stage. Engineering is the dominant function, with 30 roles listed. The company is hiring in the United States and the United Kingdom. Frequent tech tags include embodied_ai, model_serving, and inference_infra, suggesting a focus on deploying and managing AI models for real-world applications. Wayve has seen a significant increase in new AI roles over the last 30 days, with 15 new positions posted, a 114% increase compared to the previous 30-day period.
Wayve currently has 44 active AI-related roles in our index. The most common open titles are: ADAS Feature Engineer (2), Machine Learning Engineer, App SW (2), Machine Learning Engineering Manager, App SW (2), System Architect - Robotaxi (2), Applied Scientist, Wayve Labs. Most positions are in Engineering and Product.
Wayve's active AI hiring is concentrated in: application (57%), agents (14%), serving infrastructure (14%). These categories follow a seven-stage AI lifecycle: data, pre-training, post-training, serving infrastructure, agents, evaluation, and application.
Wayve is hiring AI talent in: United States (26 roles), United Kingdom (15 roles), Japan (4 roles), Germany (4 roles).
Job postings at Wayve most frequently reference: embodied ai, model serving, evals, inference infra, fine tuning.
In the past 30 days, Wayve has posted 28 new AI-related roles. That is a +250% change versus the prior 30 days (8 → 28).
| Title | Stage | AI score |
|---|---|---|
| Tech Lead, Autonomy Performance - Robotaxi Tech Lead for Autonomy Performance in a Robotaxi program, focusing on defining and owning the performance measurement framework, issue detection, prioritization, and driving improvements across ML models and robot software. This role involves cross-functional leadership and hands-on debugging in Python/C++/SQL to ensure the product meets release readiness and maintains performance over time. | ShipEval Gate | 9 |
| Director AV Product Engineering Director of Engineering for Product Engineering within the AI Engineering organization, responsible for taking AI model backbones and delivering an autonomous vehicle capability roadmap with production-level quality. This includes data collection, filtering, training, tuning, and debugging production models for deployment to OEM partners. The role requires establishing ML practices, attracting technical leadership, and managing multiple teams covering driving, ADAS, parking, and HMI functionality. Key responsibilities include defining technical vision and strategy, driving an eval-driven culture, and building technical capabilities. |
| ShipPost-train |
| 9 |
| Autonomy Systems & Release Engineer This role focuses on Release Engineering for Autonomy Systems, acting as a key decision-maker before formal validation. It involves ensuring stable delivery of the driving model baseline, evolving the release process, working with feature teams on evaluation strategies, identifying process efficiencies, and collaborating with product teams to align iterations with goals. The role requires hands-on experience with robotic systems and data-driven decision-making. | ShipEval Gate | 8 |
| Staff Cloud SRE – AI/ML Platform & GPU Compute Staff Cloud SRE role focused on building and scaling the reliability of AI cloud platforms, including Model Development Platform and GPU Compute infrastructure for model training and inference. The role involves owning reliability, incident response, observability, and automation for large-scale AI systems and GPU clusters. | ServeData | 8 |
| Technical Product Manager - Robotaxi Product Manager for L4 autonomous driving solutions, focusing on defining, developing, and delivering AI-powered features for vehicles. This role bridges cutting-edge embodied AI and end-to-end learning with market-ready products, emphasizing customer experience and human interaction with AI in the context of robotaxis. | ShipAgent | 8 |
| Tech Lead, Remote Assist - Robotaxi Tech Lead role focused on the architecture and technical roadmap for Remote Assistance in Wayve's Robotaxi launch, connecting vehicle telemetry and operator support. Requires experience in real-time, safety-critical systems and product orientation. | ShipAgent | 7 |
| System Architect - Robotaxi System Architect role focused on integrating Wayve's AI Driver into robotaxi platforms, defining system architecture, requirements, and integration strategies with external partners. Requires strong systems engineering background in autonomous driving and experience with complex embedded systems. | ShipAgent | 7 |
| Vehicle Validation Engineer Wayve is seeking a Vehicle Validation Engineer to ensure the real-world deployment of their AI driving systems. The role involves planning and executing vehicle tests, developing validation concepts, ensuring vehicle readiness, delivering test data and insights, and providing feedback on system performance from both technical and customer perspectives. The engineer will also contribute to improving testing processes and operational best practices as the team scales, and manage external supplier relationships. The role requires experience with vehicle diagnostics tools, structured vehicle testing, and the ability to analyze test data. Experience with autonomous vehicle systems and scripting/data tools is desirable. | ShipEval Gate | 7 |
| System Architect - Robotaxi System Architect role focused on integrating Wayve's AI Driver into robotaxi platforms, defining system architecture, requirements, and integration strategies with external partners. Requires strong systems engineering background in autonomous driving and experience with complex embedded systems. | ShipAgent | 7 |
| Senior Software Engineer, Cloud, Simulation Senior Software Engineer role focused on Wayve's Simulation Technology team, which develops and evaluates the company's driving intelligence. The role involves evolving the simulation platform, integrating classical simulation techniques with machine learning, and working on robot emulator fidelity, visual fidelity, or efficient scaling. Responsibilities include owning KPIs for simulator cost and throughput, leading technical discussions, and implementing production-quality software. Requires experience with workflow orchestration, Python, and Kubernetes, with desirable experience in autonomous vehicles, ML inference systems, and modern machine learned graphics. | ServeAgent | 7 |
| Tech Lead / Manager - Trajectory Generation and Controls Tech Lead/Manager for Trajectory Generation and Controls team at Wayve, focusing on real-world vehicle motion for autonomous driving. The role involves leading engineers, defining technical roadmaps, and owning the interface between the AI Driver, trajectory generation, and control systems. Requires experience in managing teams, leading technical direction for physical AI systems (especially autonomous vehicles), and production system delivery. Expertise in controls, trajectory generation, and ML integration is essential. | ShipAgent | 7 |
| Senior Cloud SRE - AI/ML Platform & GPU Compute Founding Cloud SRE role to build and scale the reliability foundations of Wayve's AI cloud platform, including the Model Development Platform and GPU Compute platform, supporting model training and inference at scale. | ServeData | 7 |
| Software Engineer -System Performance, Robot Software Software Engineer focused on system performance for Wayve's robot software stack, enabling autonomous driving and data collection for AI model training. The role involves investigating and optimizing performance bottlenecks, integrating profiling tools, and collaborating with teams to enhance efficiency and reduce latency for onboard components and model experiments. | Serve | 7 |
| Safety System Engineer This role focuses on functional safety for an Autonomous Driving System (ADS), involving risk assessments (HARAs, FMEAs, FTAs), developing safety concepts and architectures, defining test specifications, and building safety cases. It requires deep understanding of ISO 26262 and experience with automotive systems, with desirable expertise in AI/ML safety assurance for computer vision and SOTIF. | — | 5 |
| Partner Program Manager This role manages external data supply partnerships for an Embodied AI company, focusing on technical program management and data operations to enable the company's roadmap and product deployment at scale. The individual will coordinate complex partner programs, ensuring alignment across internal and external stakeholders, and facilitating the ingestion, enrichment, and availability of partner data for ML training. | — | 5 |
| Staff Data Platform Engineer Staff Data Platform Engineer to own and lead Wayve's Data Transfer Hub project, a mission-critical infrastructure for transferring petabytes of sensor data daily from partner vehicles globally to enable AI model training at scale. The role involves designing and building a distributed ingestion system using technologies like Flyte, Kafka, and Azure, with a focus on technical leadership and hands-on delivery. | Data | 5 |
| Partner Integration Engineer Partner Integration Engineer role focused on building solutions and integrations between Wayve's Embodied AI technology and automaker partners. This role involves customer-facing engineering, developing APIs, improving observability, resolving production issues, and participating in an on-call rotation. The primary focus is on the integration and delivery of AI-powered automated driving systems to external partners. | — | 5 |
| HIL System Engineer This role focuses on designing, deploying, and improving Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) systems for autonomous vehicle development. The engineer will lead the full lifecycle of HIL benches, integrating hardware and software components, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure reliable and scalable testing infrastructure. The role requires strong systems engineering fundamentals and experience in debugging complex hardware-software integrations. | — | 5 |
| Safety System Engineer This role focuses on functional safety for an Autonomous Driving System (ADS), involving risk assessments (HARAs, FMEAs, FTAs), developing safety concepts and architectures, defining test specifications, and building safety cases. It requires deep understanding of ISO 26262 and experience with automotive systems, with desirable expertise in AI/ML safety assurance for computer vision systems and SOTIF. | — | 5 |
| Principal Architect Principal Architect to define and drive the architecture of the AI Portal Platform, an enterprise-grade, cloud-native, multi-tenant SaaS platform for scaling to multiple OEM customers. This role involves hands-on leadership in defining scalable architectures for data pipelines, microservices, workflow orchestration, and security, supporting AI training and fleet operations. | — | 5 |
| System Test Engineer, HIL Wayve is seeking a System Test Engineer to join their Verification and Release Test team, focusing on scaling embedded software verification efforts for autonomous driving systems. The role involves developing automation for system functionality tests, creating Hardware-in-the-Loop (HiL) tests, optimizing CI/CD workflows, and leading root cause investigations. The position requires hands-on experience with system-level verification in robotics or embedded software, HiL testing, and strong Python skills for test automation. | Ship | 5 |
| Head of UK and EU Policy Wayve is seeking a Head of UK and EU Policy to lead their policy and regulatory engagement strategy for autonomous driving technology. This senior role involves representing Wayve to European governments, defining public affairs strategies, and partnering with internal teams to enable commercial deployment of Level 2, 3, and 4 autonomous driving products. The position requires influencing policy conversations at the forefront of AI-powered mobility and navigating complex regulatory landscapes across the UK and Europe. | — | 5 |
| Fleet Operations Coordinator The Fleet Operations Coordinator role is the operational backbone for global fleet enablement activities, involving coordination, logistics, compliance management, training administration, and process improvement. This role supports various teams including Fleet Ops, Field Engineering, Finance, and Training, and is responsible for managing administrative workflows, training sessions, documentation, vendor coordination, and fleet logistics. | — | 0 |
| Fleet Operations Delivery Manager – EMEA- FTC 12 Months This role is for a Fleet Operations Delivery Manager in EMEA, focusing on workforce planning, scheduling, and operational compliance for Wayve's Embodied AI technology in vehicles. The role ensures workforce readiness and operational consistency across the UK, Germany, and Israel, supporting the safe and efficient delivery of fleet operations and testing. | — | 0 |
| Learning Experience Partner This role is focused on developing and scaling learning experiences within a company that develops AI technology. The primary responsibilities include strategic partnership, learning design, leadership development, culture enablement, and measurement of learning initiatives. The role requires experience in L&D strategy, program design, stakeholder management, and data evaluation, with a focus on enabling and scaling learning rather than direct delivery. | — | 0 |
| Senior Platform Engineer Senior Platform Engineer role focused on owning and evolving cloud infrastructure, developer tooling, CI/CD, RBAC/IAM, and Kubernetes for the Portal engineering team at Wayve, a company developing Embodied AI technology for autonomous driving. | — | 0 |
| Talent Coordinator - FTC Wayve is seeking a Talent Coordinator for a 6-month fixed-term contract to support their growing Talent team. The role involves coordinating high-volume interviews, ensuring a positive candidate experience, and assisting with hiring operations. The ideal candidate is highly organized, detail-oriented, and has excellent communication skills, with experience in fast-paced environments. | — | 0 |
| Staff Fullstack Engineer - Onboard Experience Staff Fullstack Engineer to lead the technical direction of the in-vehicle web experience for an autonomous vehicle company. This role involves owning a high-impact product used in live vehicle operations, spanning camera/video, 2D overlays, and 3D spatial visualisation. The engineer will work closely with operators and other engineers, balancing rapid iteration with robustness, performance, and maintainability in a safety-critical context. | — | 0 |
| Applied Scientist, Wayve Labs | — | — |
| Warehouse Specialist | — | — |
| Feature Owner, ADAS | — | — |