Senior Software Engineer

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Senior Software Engineer in USA

Wayve
Full time
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USA
09/17/2026
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Sunnyvale, CA

Responsibilities

Support software bring-up for new vehicle programs through bench, HIL, and on-vehicle integration activities, including work at international test locations.
Develop and maintain vehicle-facing software components and shared frameworks that improve reliability, abstraction, and reuse.
Diagnose integration issues across software and hardware boundaries and drive fixes through resolution with relevant teams.
Deliver architectural improvements that reduce bespoke integration work and improve predictability.
Build tooling, diagnostics, and metrics for robot software performance and reliability monitoring.
Create technical documentation and runbooks and collaborate with hardware, safety, controls, calibration, and reliability teams.

Requirements

Strong production software development experience in C++, Python, and/or Rust.
Experience developing and debugging software on Linux-based robotic or automotive platforms, including multiprocess 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 using logs, telemetry, and on-target testing.
Experience with vehicle sensors, calibration, synchronization, and data validation.
Experience with automotive-grade high-performance compute platforms such as NVIDIA DRIVE or Qualcomm Snapdragon Ride.
Strong systems-level debugging skills across software and hardware boundaries.
Familiarity with CAN, Automotive Ethernet, and associated debugging tools.
Experience with drive-by-wire or safety-critical control interfaces, shared frameworks or libraries, HIL or simulation environments, functional safety, technical documentation, and observability is desirable.

Benefits

Full-time hybrid role based in Sunnyvale, California.
Competitive equity package.
Inclusive interview experience with accommodations available upon request.

Salary: $209k - $260k/yr

Wayve

Wayve builds end-to-end autonomous driving software—the vehicle-agnostic Wayve AI Driver—that runs on onboard compute and native sensors, licensed to automakers and fleet operators. Its platform spans ADAS and higher autonomy (L2+/L3 to robotaxi) and is designed to generalize across vehicle types...

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