Staff Software Engineer Engineer, Model Development Platform

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 the role

As a Staff Software Engineer on the Model Development Platform, you'll own the architecture of the cloud services that power Wayve's AI model lifecycle, from data and training workflows to experiment scheduling, evaluation and on-road testing. You'll build the secure, reliable and scalable foundations (identity and access, microservices, micro-frontends, deployment and rollback) that let researchers and engineers iterate fast and ship autonomous driving models safely.

🧠 Your day-to-day

Working with the Head of Model Dev Platform and fellow technical leads, you'll shape the technical direction for your area and align platform engineering with company goals. You'll lead by example: staying hands-on across backend services, web applications and cloud infrastructure, and raising the bar through design reviews and mentorship.

🧩 What you’ll own

• Scalable, reliable cloud services: Design and evolve the architecture of major platform services for reliability, observability, security and scalability. Help set availability, latency and performance targets (SLAs/SLOs) and drive the practices to meet them.
• Authentication & authorization: Own the identity, access control and auditability layer across platform services and applica