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Principal System Architect

Wayve · Sunnyvale, California USA · London, United Kingdom

Roboticsremoteprincipal$348k–$458k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Own end-to-end system architecture for AI Driver from assisted to L4 driver-out.
  • Shape L3 eyes-off and L4 deployment across sensor, compute and vehicle interfaces.
  • Build embodied intelligence that moves real vehicles safely at scale.

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 workshops and labs
  • Learning and development budgets for training and conferences
  • Comprehensive health, dental, parental leave, pension and wellbeing benefits

Ideal candidate

Systems thinker with deep ADAS/AD background who thrives aligning OEMs and engineers around one architecture and wants hands-on ownership building safe L3/L4 autonomy from concept to vehicle.

Requirements

  • Strong experience in system architecture, systems engineering or solution architecture for ADAS/AD, robotics or complex safety-relevant embedded systems
  • Broad understanding across system and vehicle-level architecture, sensors, compute and hardware, embedded software, vehicle integration and safety
  • Experience defining and owning product or integration architecture for complex, cross-functional systems end-to-end
  • Ability to translate high-level product or deployment goals into concrete architectural requirements and trade-offs
  • Experience working across multiple technical domains and aligning different engineering stakeholders
  • Experience leading technical discussions with OEMs, Tier 1s or other external partners
  • Working knowledge of ISO 26262 and ISO 21448 (SOTIF) and how they shape system architecture
  • Strong written and verbal communication, including architecture documents that others build from
  • Hands-on enough to support bring-up, integration trade-offs and system-level debugging
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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