Staff Software Engineer - Platform Integration, Robot Software

Wayve • Sunnyvale, CA

2d • Hybrid

About The Position

Wayve is building embodied AI for autonomous driving. Within Robot Software, the Platform Integration team brings together the software and interfaces that enable the AI Driver to operate on new development platforms. The team owns early vehicle software integration, drive-by-wire, and vehicle-facing software drivers, working across software, hardware, controls, and operations to bring up vehicle variants, improve reliability, and establish repeatable validation and handover processes.

The Staff Software Engineer brings deep experience in software, hardware, robotics, and autonomous-vehicle integration. This person leads integration architecture, mentors engineers, and helps resolve the team’s most complex technical challenges. They work with the Engineering Manager on the technical roadmap and with other Robot Software leads on system design and integration decisions, while remaining hands-on with software development and vehicle bring-up.

The role covers integration architecture for new vehicle programmes; shared vehicle-facing components and abstractions; system-level integration of Linux-based robotic and automotive platforms; sensor integration and validation; vehicle communication and control interfaces; and integration across automotive compute platforms. It also includes developing validation strategies, diagnostics, and tooling. Wayve operates a hybrid working model that combines in-person collaboration at its office hubs with remote work. The position offers hands-on work in vehicle workshops and labs. Benefits and compensation may vary by location.

Requirements

• Substantial experience integrating autonomous vehicles or similarly complex robotic systems, with a practical understanding of interactions among software, compute, sensors, networks, and actuators.
• Experience leading architecture and delivery for complex integration work and making technical decisions across software and hardware boundaries.
• Strong software-development skills in C++, Rust, or comparable systems languages.
• Experience delivering production-quality software on Linux-based robotic, embedded, or automotive platforms.
• Ability to turn ambiguous requirements into clear designs, interfaces, and implementation plans.
• Track record of resolving difficult system-level problems through systematic investigation and on-target testing, with strong understanding of underlying technology.
• Understanding of ROS2 or similar middleware, distributed-system integration, and practical vehicle bring-up.
• Experience raising a team’s technical capability through mentoring, design reviews, and engineering standards.
• Ability to influence technical decisions across teams and work with engineering management to connect architecture, delivery priorities, and long-term investment.

Nice To Haves

• Experience delivering integrations across multiple vehicle or compute platforms.
• Experience working with OEMs or hardware suppliers.
• Experience developing reusable integration frameworks.
• Experience with drive-by-wire.
• Experience with HiL testing.
• Experience with functional safety.
• Experience with fleet reliability.

Responsibilities

• Lead integration architecture and author design documents defining interfaces, evaluating trade-offs, and guiding implementation across vehicle programmes.
• Partner with the Engineering Manager to shape the technical roadmap, balancing programme delivery with improvements to architecture, tooling, and maintainability.
• Resolve complex integration challenges by diagnosing issues across application software, middleware, operating systems, networks, and hardware.
• Mentor engineers through design discussions, code reviews, and hands-on debugging.
• Represent Platform Integration in cross-team technical discussions and align with technical leads on interfaces, dependencies, and ownership.
• Develop and review production software, establishing patterns that reduce bespoke integration work and improve reuse.
• Lead targeted bench, hardware-in-the-loop (HiL), and vehicle investigations to resolve uncertainty or validate designs.
• Use lessons from vehicle bring-up and field issues to improve diagnostics, integration practices, documentation, and validation.
• Integrate embedded compute, sensors, vehicle interfaces, networks, and software services for new vehicle programmes.
• Develop shared vehicle-facing components and abstractions that support multiple hardware configurations without duplicating integration logic.
• Integrate Linux-based robotic and automotive platforms with multiprocess and distributed architectures.
• Work with sensor-owning teams on sensor integration, calibration, synchronisation, and data validation.
• Integrate vehicle communication and control interfaces, including CAN, Automotive Ethernet, and drive-by-wire systems.
• Integrate across automotive compute platforms such as NVIDIA DRIVE and Qualcomm Snapdragon Ride.
• Develop bench, HiL, and vehicle validation strategies to identify integration problems early and provide evidence of platform readiness.
• Develop diagnostics and tooling that make complex robot systems easier to understand, debug, and support.

Benefits

• Salaries benchmarked against the market annually.
• Meaningful equity, sharing in Wayve’s ownership and long-term success.
• Relocation support and visa sponsorship where applicable.
• Hybrid working, core hours, and hands-on work 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, and team socials.

What This Job Offers

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