Staff Software Engineer - OS, Robot Software
Wayve · Sunnyvale, California USA
Roboticsremotestaff$275k–$293k
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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