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Application Software Engineer

Wayve · Leonberg, Germany

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At a glance

Highlights

  • Bring up AI driving stack on customer automotive hardware from ground up.
  • Localise autonomous driving tech for German market with OEM partners.
  • Build diagnostics, flashing and health-check automation for target hardware.

What they offer

  • Salaries benchmarked against the market annually
  • Meaningful equity
  • Relocation support and visa sponsorship where applicable
  • Hybrid working with core hours
  • Learning and development budgets
  • Comprehensive health insurance, dental and wellbeing support
  • Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
  • Retirement or pension where applicable

Ideal candidate

Hands-on embedded veteran who thrives bringing up new hardware and solving integration puzzles with OEMs. Passionate about autonomy and comfortable with ambiguity, ownership and hands-on lab work.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience in embedded or automotive software development, ideally with platform bring-up experience
  • Strong proficiency in C/C++, Bash, and Python
  • Deep understanding of Linux-based embedded systems including Yocto, systemd, bootloaders and device trees
  • Familiarity with QNX and Adaptive AUTOSAR environments and ability to configure and debug on target hardware
  • Experience with bring-up on automotive-grade SoCs such as NVIDIA Orin, Qualcomm SA8295/SA8650, Renesas, TI
  • Comfortable with hardware debuggers, flashing tools, serial consoles and board support packages
  • Familiarity with CAN, Ethernet, PCIe, SPI, I2C protocols
  • Hands-on experience integrating embedded platforms into CI/CD pipelines and test automation frameworks
remote policy
Hybrid working with core hours
visa sponsorship
Visa sponsorship and relocation support where applicable

Lab profile

About Wayve

London-based AI lab building embodied driving intelligence for autonomous vehicles.

What they build

  • Wayve Driver embodied AI driving software
  • GAIA generative world models for driving
  • LINGO language-grounded driving AI

Known for

  • End-to-end embodied AI for driving
  • Camera-first, mapless autonomy approach
  • Large-scale real-world learning and simulation

Key facts

  • Founded in 2017
  • Headquartered in London, UK
  • Backed by SoftBank Group, NVIDIA and Microsoft
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