Sunnyvale, California, United States · On-site
About us Founded in 2017, Wayve is the leading developer of Embodied AI technology. Our advanced AI software and foundation models enable vehicles to perceive, understand, and navigate any complex environment, enhancing …
Skills: System engineering, Automotive development, ADAS, Automated driving, Requirements management
Sunnyvale, California, United States · Hybrid
$210k–$300k/yr
About us Founded in 2017, Wayve is the leading developer of Embodied AI technology. Our advanced AI software and foundation models enable vehicles to perceive, understand, and navigate any complex environment, enhancing …
Skills: C++, Embedded Linux, Automotive Sensors, LiDAR, Camera
Sunnyvale, California, United States · Hybrid
$209k–$266k/yr
About us Founded in 2017, Wayve is the leading developer of Embodied AI technology. Our advanced AI software and foundation models enable vehicles to perceive, understand, and navigate any complex environment, enhancing …
Skills: Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, React, SQL
Sunnyvale, California, United States · Hybrid
$348k–$458k/yr
About us Founded in 2017, Wayve is the leading developer of Embodied AI technology. Our advanced AI software and foundation models enable vehicles to perceive, understand, and navigate any complex environment, enhancing …
Skills: Embedded software architecture, C++, C, Python, Rust
Sunnyvale, California, United States · Hybrid
$171k–$229k/yr
About us Founded in 2017, Wayve is the leading developer of Embodied AI technology. Our advanced AI software and foundation models enable vehicles to perceive, understand, and navigate any complex environment, enhancing …
Skills: Technical program management, Operations management, Field testing, Autonomous systems, Stakeholder management
Sunnyvale, California, United States · Hybrid
$312k–$370k/yr
About us Founded in 2017, Wayve is the leading developer of Embodied AI technology. Our advanced AI software and foundation models enable vehicles to perceive, understand, and navigate any complex environment, enhancing …
Skills: Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Python, PyTorch, Deep Learning
Sunnyvale, California, United States · Hybrid
$276k–$311k/yr
About us Founded in 2017, Wayve is the leading developer of Embodied AI technology. Our advanced AI software and foundation models enable vehicles to perceive, understand, and navigate any complex environment, enhancing …
Skills: Engineering management, Cloud infrastructure, Platform engineering, Roadmap planning, Stakeholder management
Sunnyvale, California, United States · Hybrid
$210k–$267k/yr
About us Founded in 2017, Wayve is the leading developer of Embodied AI technology. Our advanced AI software and foundation models enable vehicles to perceive, understand, and navigate any complex environment, enhancing …
Skills: Embedded software, Test automation, Python, C++, Linux
Sunnyvale, California, United States · Hybrid
$407k–$460k/yr
About us Founded in 2017, Wayve is the leading developer of Embodied AI technology. Our advanced AI software and foundation models enable vehicles to perceive, understand, and navigate any complex environment, enhancing …
Skills: 3D Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, PyTorch, Python
Sunnyvale, California, United States · On-site
About us Founded in 2017, Wayve is the leading developer of Embodied AI technology. Our advanced AI software and foundation models enable vehicles to perceive, understand, and navigate any complex environment, enhancing …
Skills: Robotics, Robot Manipulation, C++, Python, ROS
Sunnyvale, California, United States · Hybrid
$111k–$150k/yr
About us Founded in 2017, Wayve is the leading developer of Embodied AI technology. Our advanced AI software and foundation models enable vehicles to perceive, understand, and navigate any complex environment, enhancing …
Skills: Strategic partnerships, Commercial execution, Autonomous mobility, Project management, Cross-functional leadership
Sunnyvale, California, United States · Hybrid
$172k–$274k/yr
About us Founded in 2017, Wayve is the leading developer of Embodied AI technology. Our advanced AI software and foundation models enable vehicles to perceive, understand, and navigate any complex environment, enhancing …
Skills: Program Delivery, Technical Program Management, Systems Thinking, Risk Management, Cross-functional Collaboration
Sunnyvale, California, United States · Hybrid
$296k–$335k/yr
About us Founded in 2017, Wayve is the leading developer of Embodied AI technology. Our advanced AI software and foundation models enable vehicles to perceive, understand, and navigate any complex environment, enhancing …
Skills: Distributed Systems, ML Ops, System Architecture, Kubernetes, Spark
Sunnyvale, California, United States · On-site
About us Founded in 2017, Wayve is the leading developer of Embodied AI technology. Our advanced AI software and foundation models enable vehicles to perceive, understand, and navigate any complex environment, enhancing …
Skills: Data Engineering, Python, SQL, Data Modeling, ETL/ELT
Sunnyvale, California, United States · Hybrid
$332k–$415k/yr
About us Founded in 2017, Wayve is the leading developer of Embodied AI technology. Our advanced AI software and foundation models enable vehicles to perceive, understand, and navigate any complex environment, enhancing …
Skills: Product Management, Platform Management, AI/ML Evaluation, Simulation Platforms, Developer Experience
Sunnyvale, California, United States · Hybrid
$259k–$312k/yr
About us Founded in 2017, Wayve is the leading developer of Embodied AI technology. Our advanced AI software and foundation models enable vehicles to perceive, understand, and navigate any complex environment, enhancing …
Skills: Technical Program Management, Data Platform Engineering, People Leadership, Distributed Data Platforms, Machine Learning
Sunnyvale, California, United States · Hybrid
$370k–$418k/yr
About us Founded in 2017, Wayve is the leading developer of Embodied AI technology. Our advanced AI software and foundation models enable vehicles to perceive, understand, and navigate any complex environment, enhancing …
Skills: Distributed Systems, GPU Cloud Infrastructure, AI Training, Inference Workloads, Petabyte-Scale Data Architecture
Sunnyvale, California, United States · Hybrid
$312k–$370k/yr
About us Founded in 2017, Wayve is the leading developer of Embodied AI technology. Our advanced AI software and foundation models enable vehicles to perceive, understand, and navigate any complex environment, enhancing …
Skills: Machine Learning, Python, PyTorch, Data Curation, Foundation Model Training
Sunnyvale, California, United States · Hybrid
$370k–$419k/yr
About us Founded in 2017, Wayve is the leading developer of Embodied AI technology. Our advanced AI software and foundation models enable vehicles to perceive, understand, and navigate any complex environment, enhancing …
Skills: Machine learning, Robot foundation models, Vision-language models, Video models, Robot policies
Sunnyvale, California, United States · Hybrid
$210k–$267k/yr
About us Founded in 2017, Wayve is the leading developer of Embodied AI technology. Our advanced AI software and foundation models enable vehicles to perceive, understand, and navigate any complex environment, enhancing …
Skills: React, TypeScript, MUI, Rust, Go
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You will design L2/L3 automotive-grade systems based on the AV2.0 approach and define actionable system requirements for automated driving products. Additionally, you will collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate solutions into vehicles and perform hands-on testing to ensure system reliability.
The role requires at least 5 years of experience in system engineering or automotive development, with proficiency in requirements management tools. A bachelor's or master's degree in Systems Engineering, Automotive Engineering, or Computer Science is also required.
Founded in 2017, Wayve is the leading developer of Embodied AI technology. Our advanced AI software and foundation models enable vehicles to perceive, understand, and navigate any complex environment, enhancing the usability and safety of automated driving systems.
Our vision is to create autonomy that propels the world forward. Our intelligent, mapless, and hardware-agnostic AI products are designed for automakers, accelerating the transition from assisted to automated driving.
In our fast-paced environment big problems ignite us—we embrace uncertainty, leaning into complex challenges to unlock groundbreaking solutions. We aim high and stay humble in our pursuit of excellence, constantly learning and evolving as we pave the way for a smarter, safer future.
At Wayve, your contributions matter. We value diversity, embrace new perspectives, and foster an inclusive work environment; we back each other to deliver impact.
Make Wayve the experience that defines your career!
As automotive system engineer, you will be responsible for designing the L2/L3 automotive grade system based on our AV2.0 approach. This includes the strategy and the concept of how to embed our fundamentally new autonomy solution in future OEM vehicle infrastructures. You will also engage with our customers and represent our approach and our company in the planning of collaboration projects.
You will grow with the company and be critical in establishing how we design our system closely with software engineering leads. Our stack includes base software for sensor data processing, neural network execution and diagnostics and robotic functions for vehicle control.
You will also act as a coach to others towards an automotive grade, requirement based development mindset to help teams deliver automotive grade software.
In order to set you up for success as a Systems Engineer at Wayve, we’re looking for the following skills and experience.
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This role is a full-time role based in Sunnyvale, CA (hybrid) and the reasonably estimated salary for this role ranges from $209,700 to 311,400, plus a competitive equity package. Actual compensation is based on the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience. 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.
Wayve is committed to creating an inclusive interview experience. If you require any accommodations or adjustments to participate fully in our interview process, please let us know.
We understand that everyone has a unique set of skills and experiences and that not everyone will meet all of the requirements listed above. If you’re passionate about self-driving cars and think you have what it takes to make a positive impact on the world, we encourage you to apply.
At Wayve we're committed to creating a diverse, fair and respectful culture that is inclusive of everyone based on their unique skills and perspectives, and regardless of sex, race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding) or any other basis as protected by applicable law.
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DISCLAIMER: We will not ask about marriage or pregnancy, care responsibilities or disabilities in any of our job adverts or interviews. However, we do look to capture information about care responsibilities, and disabilities among other diversity information as part of an optional DEI Monitoring form to help us identify areas of improvement in our hiring process and ensure that the process is inclusive and non-discriminatory.
At Wayve, we’re building a global driving intelligence that learns from data and scales across different vehicles and geographies. Founded in 2017, we have pioneered an end-to-end AI approach to autonomous driving that is faster to deploy, more flexible by design and built to scale. We deliver all levels of autonomy, from hands-off and eyes-off driving, to robotaxis. We license and integrate the Wayve AI Driver as a vehicle-agnostic software platform that runs entirely on onboard vehicle compute and native sensors. Wayve is the first and only AV company to test a single global AI Driver model across more than 500 cities in Europe, North America and Japan. We’re building autonomy for anyone, in any vehicle, anywhere.
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