Vehicle SW Engineering · Robot Software
Before the detail, here's the challenge you'd help us solve.
We build the embodied intelligence that moves real vehicles safely, and the ecosystem a billion machines will run on in the future. Very few people in AI can say this. Every role here, whatever the team, plugs into that.
Here’s what this particular role covers.
🛠️ About our Engineering Teams
Wayve’s Robot Software organization builds the platform that turns autonomy models into dependable, observable software running across development and customer vehicles. The work spans application frameworks, inter-process communication, logging, deployment, platform reliability, developer experience, and the interfaces between autonomy software, hardware, simulation, and fleet operations.
As a Principal Software Engineer, you’ll be a technical peer and trusted adviser to Robot Software leadership. You’ll shape the 12–24 month technical roadmap, identify the highest-leverage platform investments, and lead cross-team delivery that improves reliability and developer velocity across multiple vehicle programs.
🧠 Your day-to-day
- Partner with leadership to define and continuously refine the Robot Software technical roadmap.
- Lead a small number of high-impact platform initiatives from ambiguity through delivery.
- Align architecture and interfaces across Robot Software, Autonomy, Simulation, Evaluation, hardware, and OEM stakeholders.
- Design systems that are observable, diagnosable, and supportable from thousands of kilometres away.
- Improve developer experience, pre-merge validation, logging, metric