Principal System Architect
Wayve · Sunnyvale, California USA · London, United Kingdom
Roboticsremoteprincipal$348k–$458k
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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