Staff Robotics Engineer
About The Position
Wayve is seeking a Robotics Software Engineer to join its Online Calibration team and help scale the company’s autonomous vehicle fleet. The role focuses on turning calibration and estimation methods into reliable, observable, and resource-efficient components of the on-vehicle runtime. The engineer will work across calibration, state estimation, robot software, hardware acceleration, and vehicle-platform teams to shape the architecture and roadmap for a foundational capability affecting vehicle performance, resilience, and safety. The role involves developing production software for online calibration that runs continuously on constrained, hardware-accelerated platforms. It involves working with asynchronous sensor data, accelerator-produced features, and noisy, time-varying calibration parameters while balancing correctness, debuggability, and runtime efficiency. The position is based in London or Sunnyvale and follows a hybrid working model, combining in-person collaboration in offices and workshops with remote work.
Requirements
- Strong practical expertise in sensor calibration, state estimation, or a closely related robotics domain, including calibration of cameras, LiDAR, IMUs, vehicle parameters, or multi-sensor systems.
- Strong understanding of filtering and estimation methods, including Kalman-family filters, Bayesian estimation, smoothing, robust estimation, or factor-graph optimisation.
- Strong modern C++ software-engineering skills and proficiency in Python for prototyping, analysis, and test tooling.
- Experience productionising algorithm-heavy robotics software for vehicles, robots, drones, aerospace systems, or comparable edge platforms, including clear lifecycle, failure-handling, and recovery behaviour.
- Experience with asynchronous, high-throughput sensor data and hardware-accelerated pipelines, and ability to optimise constrained compute and memory systems without losing correctness or debuggability.
- Strong software architecture, API design, testing, debugging, and performance-profiling skills.
- End-to-end ownership and effective cross-functional collaboration.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with visual odometry, SLAM, localisation, sensor fusion, ego-motion estimation, or geometric computer vision.
- Experience with GPU, DSP, NPU, or other hardware-accelerated robotics workloads.
- Experience with production software at scale in a robotics or autonomous-systems company.
- Experience with embedded Linux, edge-state management, rollback, automotive safety, or fault-injection testing.
Responsibilities
- Extend the existing online calibration node, delivering robust production software within the team’s architecture and technical direction.
- Adapt and integrate calibration and estimation algorithms for continuous or on-demand onboard execution.
- Develop reliable handling for asynchronous sensor data, accelerator-produced features, and noisy, time-varying calibration parameters.
- Strengthen validation, gating, persistence, and interfaces between the calibration node, onboard state, runtime consumers, logging, and fleet-facing systems.
- Profile and optimise critical paths within compute, memory, storage, and latency constraints without compromising correctness or debuggability.
- Build comprehensive simulation, replay, bench, and on-vehicle tests, and improve metrics, diagnostics, and fleet-level observability across nominal and failure scenarios.
- Collaborate across calibration, state estimation, robot software, hardware acceleration, and vehicle-platform teams.
- Help shape the architecture and roadmap for online calibration.
Benefits
- Market-benchmarked salaries, reviewed annually.
- Meaningful equity.
- Relocation support and visa sponsorship where applicable.
- Hybrid working, core hours, and hands-on work in vehicle workshops and labs.
- Learning and development budgets, including support for training and conferences.
- Comprehensive benefits including health insurance, dental insurance, enhanced maternity and paternity leave, retirement or pension where applicable, access to therapists, wellbeing partnerships, and team socials.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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