Staff Robotics Engineer

Wayve • Sunnyvale, CA

2d • $276,100 - $293,750 • Hybrid

About The Position

Wayve is seeking a Robotics Software Engineer to join our Online Calibration team and support scaling across our autonomous vehicle fleet. You will turn calibration and estimation methods into reliable, observable, and resource-efficient components of the on-vehicle runtime. Working across calibration, state estimation, robot software, hardware acceleration, and vehicle-platform teams, you will help shape the architecture and roadmap for a foundational capability that directly affects vehicle performance, resilience, and safety.

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 can optimise constrained compute and memory systems without losing correctness or debuggability.
• Strong software architecture, API design, testing, debugging, and performance-profiling skills, alongside 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

• Develop robust production software for online calibration, operating continuously on constrained, hardware-accelerated platforms.
• Work with asynchronous sensor data, accelerator-produced features, and noisy, time-varying calibration parameters, balancing correctness, debuggability, and runtime efficiency.
• 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.

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