Senior Software Engineer - OS, Robot Software
Wayve · Sunnyvale, California USA
RoboticsremoteSenior$200k–$250k
At a glance
Highlights
- Build embodied intelligence that moves real vehicles safely on roads.
- Power autonomous driving and training data collection for development fleet.
- Support rapid on-road experimentation across a growing vehicle fleet.
What they offer
- Market-benchmarked salary with meaningful equity ownership
- Relocation support and visa sponsorship where applicable
- Learning and development budgets for training and conferences
- Comprehensive health, dental, parental leave, pension and wellbeing benefits
Ideal candidate
A systems-minded builder who thrives with real ownership in an evolving environment. You care about reliability, observability, and collaboration to advance safe autonomy.
Requirements
- Strong C and C++ experience building high-performance embedded Linux system software
- Understanding of full development lifecycle from design through delivery and optimisation
- Hands-on knowledge of embedded Linux kernels, device trees, Yocto, boot flows or user-space systems software
- Ability to debug complex performance and reliability problems across system layers
- Understanding of IPC mechanisms and middleware for high-throughput robotics systems
- Commitment to testing, documentation, observability, maintainability and collaboration
- remote policy
- Hybrid working with core hours and hands-on work in vehicle workshops and labs
- visa sponsorship
- Visa sponsorship and relocation support available 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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