Senior Software Engineer - Platform Integration, Robot Software
Wayve · Sunnyvale, California
Before the detail, here's the challenge you'd help us solve.
We build the embodied intelligence that moves real vehicles safely, and the ecosystem a billion machines will run on in the future. Very few people in AI can say this. Every role here, whatever the team, plugs into that.
Here’s what this particular role covers.
THE ROLE
As a Software Engineer on the Platform Integration Team, you will play a key role in the hands-on software bring-up of new vehicle programs, helping turn them into stable, reliable robot systems. Alongside integration activities, you’ll design and deliver improvements to vehicle-facing software components and frameworks that make future integrations faster, more predictable, and less bespoke. This is a highly technical engineering role within our Robot Software group, where your work directly enables safe, scalable deployment across multiple vehicle programs
Key responsibilities:
- Contribute to the software bring-up of new vehicle programs, supporting bench, HIL, and on-vehicle integration activities, including hands-on work at international test locations.
- Design, develop, and maintain vehicle-facing software components and shared frameworks that improve reliability, abstraction, and reuse across vehicle programs.
- Improve the stability of early-stage vehicles by diagnosing integration issues, implementing fixes where appropriate, and driving issues through to resolution with relevant teams.
- Identify and deliver architectural improvements that reduce bespoke changes and make future vehicle integrations faster and more predictable.
- Build and maintain tooling, diagnostics, and metrics to monitor robot software performance and enable continuous reliability improvements.
- Produce clear documentation and runbooks to support knowledge transfer and long-term maintainability.
- Collaborate closely with hardware, safety, controls, calibration, and reliability teams to ensure smooth and scalable vehicle software integration.
ABOUT YOU
In order to set you up for success as a Software Engineer on the Platform Integration Team at Wayve, we’re looking for the following skills and experience:
Essential
- Strong software development experience in C++, Python, and/or Rust, with a track record of delivering production-quality systems.
- Experience developing and debugging software on Linux-based robotic or automotive platforms, including multi-process or distributed systems.
- Experience with ROS2 or similar robotics middleware, including node development, message interfaces, and system integration.
- Hands-on experience integrating software with vehicle or embedded hardware, including debugging using logs, telemetry, and on-target testing.
- Practical experience working with vehicle sensors, including topics such as calibration, synchronisation, and data validation.
- Experience working with automotive-grade high-performance compute platforms (e.g., NVIDIA DRIVE, Qualcomm Snapdragon Ride, or similar embedded SoCs).
- Strong systems-level debugging skills, with the ability to diagnose and resolve complex integration issues across software and hardware boundaries.
- Familiarity with vehicle communication systems (e.g. CAN, Automotive Ethernet) and associated debugging tools.
Desirable
- Experience with drive-by-wire systems or other safety-critical control interfaces.
- Familiarity with state-of-the-art automotive bus analyzing tools (Vector CANoe/ CANalyzer/ Kvaser)
- Experience building or evolving shared frameworks, libraries, or internal platforms used by multiple teams.
- Experience improving system architecture to reduce technical debt and increase reuse across projects.
- Experience with hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) or simulation environments for integration and validation.
- Exposure to functional safety concepts or development within safety-critical systems.
- Experience writing clear technical documentation, integration guides, or operational runbooks.
- Experience contributing to observability, logging, or system metrics for reliability and performance monitoring.
This role is a full-time role based in Sunnyvale, CA (hybrid) and the reasonably estimated salary for this role ranges from $209,000 to $260,000, plus a competitive equity package. Actual compensation is based on the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience.
A quick, honest note before you apply.
Wayve is not a mature, fully-structured place with the playbook already written. Much of how we work is still being written, and if you join, you’ll help write it. That suits people who want real ownership more than people who need a settled structure from day one.
If that sounds like the kind of problem you want to spend your time on, we’d really like to hear from you.