Principal Software Architect

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 Product Architecture and Safety Teams

Our Product Architecture and Safety teams connect Wayve’s core AI Driver with the vehicle platforms that bring autonomous driving technology to customers. Working across Engineering, Product, Safety, Validation and customer programs, we define how our software integrates with OEM and Tier 1 systems, supporting safe, reliable deployment while maintaining a consistent core product architecture.

🧠 Your day-to-day

As a Principal Software Architect, you’ll lead the technical architecture for integrating Wayve’s autonomous driving technology with automotive OEM vehicle platforms. You’ll work at the boundary between our core AI Driver and external vehicle systems, translating product ambitions and customer needs into clear interfaces, requirements and technical decisions.

Your work will span high-level architecture and implementation details, from sensors and middleware to ECU constraints, timing, diagnostics, safety assumptions, data logging and validation. You’ll bring structure to ambiguous problems, guide architecture work across teams and own key decisions across customer programs. Along the way, you’ll build alignment with engineering, product, safety, validation, program and commercial leader