# Principal System Architect at Wayve

- Company: Wayve
- Status: Open
- Workplace: Hybrid
- Location: Sunnyvale, California USA · Remote · London, United Kingdom
- Level: Principal
- Discipline: Engineering
- Employment: Full-time
- Salary: $348K–458K
- Posted: 2026-11-03
- Skills: Product & Delivery
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/wayve/fb4f8940-2ebb-4b1d-80ba-9fcf9c281cc1

## Description

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

 

Product Architecture & Safety (PAS) defines, governs and validates the system and product architecture of Wayve AI Driver across programs, giving OEMs and partners one technical voice. Our growing system architecture team works across assisted driving through L4 driver-out.

 

🧠 Your day-to-day

 

• Own end-to-end system architecture, interface contracts, assumptions of use and decision records.
• Lead technical discussions with OEMs, Tier 1s and partners, aligning internal architecture owners around a common direction.
• Define ECU and sensor requirements, guide system engineers and support integration planning, bring-up, triage and system-level debugging on vehicles and HiL/ViL benches.

 

🧩 What you’ll be working on

 

Shape how Wayve AI Driver is deployed across L0–L4, with near-term focus on L3 eyes-off and L4 driver-out. The scope starts where Robotaxi needs are highest and grows with the business.

 

• Translate use cases, ODD and operational constraints into reusable product, system and integration architecture.
• Define sensor and compute topology, vehicle interfaces, safety mechanisms, redundancy, fallback and minimal-risk manoeuvre assumptions with safety engineering.
• Define on-board/off-boar

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