Senior Software Engineer - Platform Integration, Robot Software
About The Position
The Platform Integration team within Wayve’s Robot Software group is responsible for transforming new vehicle programs into stable, reliable robot systems. This team operates at the intersection of onboard software and vehicle hardware, focusing on bringing up new platforms and developing reusable components and frameworks to streamline future integrations. As a Software Engineer on this team, you will engage in both hands-on vehicle and bench work, alongside production software development. Your contributions will be crucial for enabling safe and scalable deployment across various vehicle programs.
Requirements
- Strong software-development experience in C++, Python, or Rust.
- Delivered production-quality software on Linux-based robotic, embedded, or automotive platforms.
- Understand ROS2 or similar robotics middleware and distributed-system integration.
- Hands-on experience integrating software with vehicle or embedded hardware.
- Ability to diagnose complex problems using logs, telemetry, on-target tests, and systematic experimentation.
- Understanding of vehicle sensors, networking, and the practical realities of platform bring-up.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with drive-by-wire systems
- Experience with CAN tools
- Experience with shared frameworks
- Experience with HiL or simulation
- Experience with functional safety
- Experience with technical documentation
- Experience with observability
Responsibilities
- Support software bring-up on benches, HiL systems, and vehicles, including work at international test locations.
- Develop and maintain vehicle-facing software components and shared frameworks.
- Diagnose integration issues across software and hardware boundaries and drive them through resolution.
- Identify architectural improvements that reduce bespoke work and improve reuse.
- Build diagnostics, tooling, and metrics for robot-software reliability and performance.
- Produce clear documentation and runbooks for long-term supportability.
- Collaborate with hardware, safety, controls, calibration, and reliability teams.
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
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
