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Controls Engineer

Wayve · Sunnyvale, California USA · London, United Kingdom

Roboticsremote$210k–$294k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Develop trajectory and motion controllers translating AI Driver into smooth motion.
  • Validate controllers across vehicle platforms via simulation and on-road testing.
  • Bridge AI models to vehicle platforms for ADAS and autonomous driving features.

What they offer

  • Salaries benchmarked against the market annually
  • Meaningful equity sharing in long-term success
  • Relocation support where applicable
  • Learning and development budgets for training and conferences
  • Comprehensive health, dental, parental leave and pension benefits

Ideal candidate

A robotics-minded engineer passionate about real-world autonomy who blends control theory depth with hands-on vehicle testing and thrives owning ambiguous problems from research to production.

Requirements

  • Strong fundamentals in control theory with depth in optimization, MPC, numerical methods or dynamical systems
  • Practical experience developing, tuning and validating control or motion systems on real physical systems
  • Strong software engineering skills building production-quality systems in C++
  • Experience with latency-sensitive or real-time software
  • Ability to reason about and debug system-level behaviour across software and hardware
  • Applied experience with model predictive control, trajectory optimization or motion planning
  • Direct experience with mobile robotics or autonomous vehicle systems
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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