Controls Engineer
Wayve · Sunnyvale, California USA · London, United Kingdom
Roboticsremote$210k–$294k
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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