Application Software Engineer

Highlights

• Shape Wayve's autonomous driving capabilities for Germany from the ground up.
• Bring embodied intelligence to real vehicles and future billion-machine ecosystem.
• Own early validation of the AI driver learning directly from real-world experience.

What they offer

• Salaries benchmarked against the market annually
• Meaningful equity sharing in long-term success
• Relocation support and visa sponsorship where applicable
• Hybrid working with core hours and hands-on workshop time
• Learning and development budgets for training and conferences
• Comprehensive health, dental, parental leave, pension and wellbeing benefits

Ideal candidate

Hands-on embedded automotive engineer with 5+ years bringing up platforms who thrives on hardware debugging and OEM collaboration. Passionate about autonomy and ownership in a fast-moving, still-being-written environment.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in embedded or automotive software development, ideally with hands-on platform bring-up experience
• Strong proficiency in C/C++, Bash, and Python
• Strong understanding of Linux-based embedded systems (Yocto, systemd, bootloaders, device trees)
• Familiarity with QNX and Adaptive AUTOSAR environments and ability to configure and debug them on target hardware
• Experience with bring-up on automotive-grade SoCs (e.g. NVIDIA Orin, Qualcomm SA8295/SA8650, Renesas, TI)
• Comfortable with hardware debuggers, flashing tools, serial consoles, and board support packages (BSPs)
• Familiarity with communication protocols like CAN, Ethernet, PCIe, SPI, I2C
• Hands-on experience integrating embedded platforms into CI/CD pipelines and test automation frameworks