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Staff Software Engineer - OS, Robot Software

Wayve · Sunnyvale, California USA

Roboticsremotestaff$275k–$293k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Help build embodied intelligence that moves real vehicles safely.
  • Support rapid on-road experimentation while keeping fleet vehicles reliable.
  • Improve fault tolerance and diagnostics for vehicles with limited connectivity.

What they offer

  • Salaries benchmarked against the market annually
  • Meaningful equity
  • Relocation support
  • Hybrid working with core hours
  • Learning and development budgets
  • Health insurance and dental
  • Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
  • Retirement or pension where applicable
  • Access to therapists and wellbeing partnerships
  • Team socials

Ideal candidate

Systems-minded engineer who loves deep debugging and building reliable platforms. You take ownership in ambiguous environments and care about observability, mentorship, and enabling others to iterate fast.

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 used in high-throughput robotics systems
  • Commitment to testing, documentation, observability, maintainability and collaboration
  • Experience with NVIDIA robotics or automotive platforms, QNX or another RTOS, secure boot, or ROS-style frameworks is a plus
remote policy
Hybrid working with core hours
visa sponsorship
Visa sponsorship 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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