ADAS Feature Engineer
Wayve · Tokyo, Tokyo
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
We are looking for an ADAS Feature Engineer to help build the application-layer software that connects Wayve’s AI capabilities to real vehicle behaviour. This role sits at the intersection of AI, vehicle systems, active safety, and product delivery: you will develop C++ feature logic, validation tools, and system behaviours that allow AI-native driving technology to operate robustly in real-world vehicle environments. You will work closely with machine learning, product, vehicle integration, and systems teams to turn model outputs and vehicle data into reliable, testable, and customer-relevant ADAS features.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Design, implement, and maintain C++ application software for ADAS and active-safety-related vehicle features.
- Build feature-level logic on top of AI / ML outputs, including validation, feasibility checks, state machines, fallback behaviours, and safety-aware decision logic.
- Work with ML engineers to understand model outputs, limitations, failure modes, and how these translate into vehicle behaviour.
- Use logs, simulation, replay, and vehicle testing to debug, tune, and validate feature behaviour.
- Define and improve metrics, test cases, and validation strategies for ADAS feature performance, robustness, and quality.
- Collaborate with product, systems, vehicle integration, and OEM-facing teams to translate requirements and real-world constraints into engineering solutions.
- Support field testing and iterative development, including investigation of vehicle issues, edge cases, and performance gaps.
- Contribute to software architecture, code quality, tooling, and engineering practices for feature development.
ABOUT YOU
In order to set you up for success as an ADAS Feature Engineer at Wayve, we’re looking for the following skills and experience:
Essential
- Strong C++ software engineering experience, ideally in production or safety-relevant systems.
- Hands-on experience in ADAS, autonomous driving, robotics, vehicle software, active safety, or closely related domains.
- Practical understanding of vehicle feature development, including real-world testing, simulation, replay, logs, or prototype vehicle debugging.
- Ability to reason about vehicle behaviour, sensor/model inputs, timing, failure modes, and feature-level decision logic.
- Experience working cross-functionally with teams such as ML, perception, planning, controls, vehicle integration, product, or systems engineering.
- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to make pragmatic engineering trade-offs under ambiguity.
- A quality mindset, with experience writing testable, maintainable software and using data to validate behaviour.
Desirable
- Experience with ADAS features such as AEB, ISA, AES, ACC, lane keeping, collision avoidance, trajectory validation, or active safety systems.
- Experience at an automotive OEM, Tier 1 supplier, autonomous driving company, robotics company, or vehicle technology startup.
- Familiarity with ML or AI-based autonomy systems, including how model outputs are consumed by downstream software.
- Experience with ROS, Linux, Bazel, CMake, Docker, QNX, protobuf, MCAP, CAN, calibration, or vehicle logging systems.
- Experience with vehicle test tracks, public-road testing, HIL/SIL, scenario-based testing, or NCAP-style validation.
- Familiarity with tools used in automotive development and testing, such as CANoe, Vector tools, MicroAutoBox, or similar.
- Japanese language skills are beneficial but not required.
WHAT WE OFFER YOU
- The chance to be part of a truly mission driven organisation and an opportunity to shape the future of autonomous driving. Unlike our competitors, Wayve is still relatively small and nimble, giving you the chance to make a huge impact
- Competitive compensation and benefits
- A dynamic and fast-paced work environment in which you will grow every day - learning on the job, from the brightest minds in our space, and with support for more formal learning opportunities too
- A culture that is ego-free, respectful and welcoming (of you and your dog) - we even eat lunch together every day
- Benefits such as an onsite chef, workplace nursery scheme, private health insurance, cycle scheme, therapy, yoga, two onsite bars, large social budgets
- At Wayve we want the best of all worlds so we operate a hybrid working policy that combines time together in our offices and workshops to fuel innovation, culture, relationships and learning, and time spent working from home. We also operate core working hours so you can be where you need to be for family and loved ones too. Teams determine the routines that work best for them
This is a full-time role based in our office in Tokyo. At Wayve we want the best of all worlds so we operate a hybrid working policy that combines time together in our offices and workshops to fuel innovation, culture, relationships and learning, and time spent working from home.
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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.