Senior Forensics Engineer

Wayve • Sunnyvale, CA

2d • Hybrid

About The Position

Wayve’s Forensics team sits within the Model Integration and Release group and works at the heart of autonomous-driving performance improvement. We investigate systemic issues across the full end-to-end AV stack—from hardware and software to AI models—and turn our findings into improvements in vehicle safety and performance. You’ll collaborate across the business with hardware and software engineers, roboticists, model developers, platform teams, operations, and safety specialists. As part of a newly re-formed team, you’ll also help shape our investigative processes, playbooks, and tooling as Wayve’s technology and global fleet continue to grow.

Requirements

• At least three years of experience working with complex systems in robotics, autonomous vehicles, or a comparable engineering environment.
• A curious, pragmatic systems thinker who enjoys getting hands-on with ambiguous technical problems and following the evidence to a root cause.
• Ability to investigate across a broad technical stack spanning hardware, software, data, and models.
• Experience designing real-world experiments to prove or disprove hypotheses.
• Confident using Python for data analysis and can write scripts for a range of analytical use cases, using AI tools where appropriate to work more effectively.
• Ability to communicate complex technical findings clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Ability to collaborate effectively across teams and have used your findings to influence technical decisions or wider organisational direction.
• A safety-conscious mindset and are comfortable identifying, escalating, and investigating issues with potential safety implications.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with machine-learning models
• Experience with safety-critical systems
• Experience with autonomous vehicles
• Experience with robotics
• Experience with automotive engineering
• Experience in fast-moving technology companies

Responsibilities

• Lead investigations arising from triage escalations, model alerts, on-road incidents, and ad-hoc requests, driving each problem through to its root cause.
• Analyse on-road data, logs, and offline simulations to reproduce issues, identify fleet-wide patterns, and test hypotheses.
• Build queries, plots, dashboards, and automated workflows that accelerate investigations and monitor known issues.
• Work with the teams that own each system to confirm root causes, validate fixes, and stay engaged through resolution.
• Communicate findings clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders through concise written reports, visualisations, and presentations.
• Support release testing and the bring-up of new vehicle platforms when investigative or systems-engineering input is needed.

Benefits

• Salaries benchmarked against the market annually
• Meaningful equity, sharing in the ownership and long term success of Wayve
• Relocation support and visa sponsorship where applicable
• Hybrid working, core hours and the chance to work hands on in vehicle workshops and labs
• Learning and development budgets with support for training, conferences and growth
• Comprehensive benefits including health insurance, dental, enhanced maternity and paternity leave, retirement or pension where applicable, access to therapists, wellbeing partnerships, team socials and more

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed