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Principal Engineer, Software Platform

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London, Greater London, England
Senior level
London, Greater London, England
Senior level
You will ensure software performance and efficiency while working on embedded and distributed infrastructure for machine learning and robotics. Your role includes anticipating technical issues, contributing to engineering roadmaps, upholding high software engineering standards, and mentoring tech leads. You will have the opportunity to make significant contributions to autonomous driving technologies.
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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.  

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.  

At Wayve, 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!  

About you

Where you will have an impact

  • Ensuring software performance and efficiency end-to-end, working between embedded and distributed infrastructure on one side, and machine learning (training and inference) and robotics use cases on the other side
  • Anticipating technical roadblocks – feasibility, schedule delays, complex interdependencies
  • Contributing to the definition and execution of engineering roadmaps.
  • Making tough technical decisions putting in balance velocity, serviceability, sustainability
  • Setting and holding a high bar of software engineering practices – design, coding, test
  • Being a mentor to tech leads and managers across the software engineering organisation

What you will bring to Wayve

  • Experience as tech lead of teams or projects spanning 20+ software engineers
  • Deep understanding of system software, from hardware level to distributed systems
  • Experience in designing and implementing  software for complex systems
  • Experience delivering complex systems into production, and supporting them post-production
  • Experience communicating with senior stakeholders including executives

What we offer you

  • The chance to be part of a truly mission driven organisation and an opportunity to shape the future of autonomous driving.  Unlike our competitors, Wayve is still relatively small and nimble, giving you the chance to make a huge impact
  • Competitive compensation
  • Fully employer-covered medical, dental and vision insurance!
  • Further benefits such as catered lunch, yummy snacks, and variety of drinks, life insurance, employer contributed retirement account, therapy, yoga, office-wide socials and much more.
  • A dynamic and fast-paced work environment in which you will grow every day - learning on the job, from the brightest minds in our space, and with support for more formal learning opportunities too
  • A culture that is ego-free, respectful and welcoming (of you and your dog) - we even eat lunch together every day
  • This is a full-time role based in our office in California. At Wayve we want the best of all worlds so we operate a hybrid working policy that combines time together in our offices and workshops to fuel innovation, culture, relationships and learning, and time spent working from home.  We also operate core working hours so you can be where you need to be for family and loved ones too.  Teams determine the routines that work best for them.

This is a full-time role based in our office in London.  At Wayve we want the best of all worlds so we operate a hybrid working policy that combines time together in our offices and workshops to fuel innovation, culture, relationships and learning, and time spent working from home.   



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We understand that everyone has a unique set of skills and experiences and that not everyone will meet all of the requirements listed above. If you’re passionate about self-driving cars and think you have what it takes to make a positive impact on the world, we encourage you to apply.

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.



Top Skills

C++
Java
Matlab
Python
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Wayve London, England Office

London, United Kingdom

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