Overview

Senior Robotics Engineer - Autonomy at Wayve. Join to apply for the Senior Robotics Engineer - Autonomy role at Wayve.

About Wayve: Founded in 2017, Wayve is the leading developer of Embodied AI technology. Our AI software and foundation models enable vehicles to perceive, understand, and navigate complex environments, enhancing automated driving systems. Our vision is to create autonomy that propels the world forward with mapless, hardware-agnostic products designed for automakers to accelerate the shift from assisted to automated driving. We embrace uncertainty and pursue excellence through collaboration and continuous learning, valuing diversity and an inclusive work environment.

We operate a hybrid working policy with core hours to balance in-office collaboration and remote work. Wayve is based in London, UK and Sunnyvale, USA.

Disclaimer: We will not ask about marriage, pregnancy, care responsibilities, or disabilities in job adverts or interviews. Diversity information may be collected via an optional DEI Monitoring form to help us improve our hiring process and ensure inclusivity.

The role

As a Senior Robotics Engineer in the Autonomy group, you’ll shape how our vehicles move, respond, and interact with the road environment. You’ll deliver robust low-level control and motion execution that impact driving comfort and safety, and enable user-facing capabilities such as configurable driving modes and behavior personalization. You will work across simulation, real-world testing, and platform integration to drive impact across our R&D and production autonomy stack.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the interface between robot software and low-level vehicle control systems, ensuring reliable and safe actuation for baseline and feature-driven behaviors.
• Design, test, and tune control strategies for drive-by-wire and motion execution to achieve smooth, stable, and precise driving performance across multiple driving modes and feature configurations.
• Collaborate with internal feature teams to support deployment and validation of user-facing features (e.g., comfort modes, assertiveness profiles, personalization) on-road and in simulation.
• Work with suppliers and partners to ensure drive-by-wire integration for future platforms, enabling consistency across platforms for both control and behavior-level features.
• Maintain safety and functionality of the internal R&D fleet with regard to motion control and drive-by-wire; support rollout of feature experiments at scale.
• Support performance evaluation of new vehicle platforms during bring-up and AV stack integration, including validation of control and feature interaction.
• Develop and validate longitudinal and lateral control loops that connect the AV stack to vehicle actuation, ensuring responsiveness to upstream planning and feature logic.
• Interface with third parties to specify, integrate, and validate low-level control system requirements, with flexibility to support evolving feature definitions.
• Contribute to hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) and software-in-the-loop (SIL) testbeds for control verification, feature evaluation, and safety assurance.

About you

We’re looking for someone who thrives at the intersection of robotics systems, autonomy engineering, and fast-paced feature iteration. You care about technical quality and enabling new use cases and AV experiences.

Essential

• Practical experience with controls engineering in robotics or automotive applications.
• Strong grasp of control theory (PID, state estimation, observers, MPC, stability analysis).
• Hands-on experience with testing, tuning, and debugging real-time control software on hardware platforms.
• Systems thinking: quickly understand how the AV stack components interact to achieve driving performance.
• Experience with CAN bus (DBC files, interface scripts, signal analysis).
• Hands-on with control system design and tuning for robotics/vehicle applications.
• Experience with HIL testing of embedded systems.
• Comfort with defining and verifying requirements for both platform and feature-driven controls.
• Strong software engineering skills (Python; comfortable in C++), daily Linux use.

Desirable

• Experience writing and testing embedded control software for automotive/robotics.
• Familiarity with software V-model and safety-critical development frameworks (ISO 26262, MISRA).
• MATLAB/Simulink for control design and rapid prototyping.
• Experience with ROS 2, Rust, or other modern robotics frameworks/systems.

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Engineering and Information Technology

Industries

• Software Development