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!
Portal is the platform that connects Wayve to the outside world. The Portal team acts as the airlock between Wayve and its external partners: handling data flows, system integrations and direct use by OEMs. We operate as a startup within a scale-up: small, high-ownership, and working at the frontier of AV commercialisation.
The RoleThis is a partner-facing engineering role. You'll work directly with Wayve's automaker partners; building the solutions they need and resolving technical issues as they arise. You will split your time between building partner-facing product features, developing integrations between systems, improving observability and reliability, and resolving complex production issues when they arise.
What You'll Do- Build software at the interface of OEM and Wayve systems APIs, cross-cloud integrations, and user-interfaces.
- Customer-obsessed: work directly with our OEM partners to understand their needs and build impactful solutions with the Portal team.
- Triage and resolve technical issues with Portal; whether reported by customers or detected through internal monitoring
- Build monitoring and alerting tooling to proactively detect, triage and resolve integration issues before they impact customers
- Participate in an out-of-hours on-call rotation as part of a follow-the-sun 24/7 coverage model
- Support European OEM partners; build relationships with their engineers and teams
Both roles:
- Customer-facing technical experience: solutions engineering, technical support, integration engineering or similar
- Backend engineering (we have Java and Python services)
- Experience participating in on-call or support rotation, or supporting a production system
- Operational Cloud Infrastructure experience (Azure preferred)
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills: comfortable working directly with external enterprise partners
- Product-minded: you think about customer problems and build solutions to fix them.
- High autonomy and ownership: comfortable in ambiguous, fast-changing environments
- Motivated by a startup within a scale-up environment: small team, big impact, enterprise partners
- Experience building APIs for external users
- Frontend development experience
- Experience working with automotive or mobility industry partners
- Background in SRE, DevOps or cloud operations
- Experience building or operating monitoring or observability tooling
This is a full-time role based in our office in London. 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 operate core working hours so you can determine the schedule that works best for you and your team.
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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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Skills Required
- Customer-facing technical experience in solutions engineering, technical support, or integration engineering
- Backend engineering experience with Java or Python
- Operational Cloud Infrastructure experience, preferably Azure
- Participate in on-call or support rotation
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills
Wayve Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Wayve and has not been reviewed or approved by Wayve.
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Healthcare Strength — Private healthcare and access to therapy via Spill are part of the standard package. This indicates robust health support within the core offering.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid vacation, public holidays, and additional leave programs are explicitly listed. This breadth of time away supports work–life balance expectations.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Cash plus equity is standard in offers at this growth stage. This provides ownership alongside salary with perceived upside tied to company momentum.
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What We Do
We're Wayve, a leading developer of embodied intelligence for autonomous vehicles. We use AI to pioneer a next-generation approach to self-driving: AV2.0, which enables fleet operators to unlock the benefits of AV technology at scale. Founded in 2017, Wayve is made up of a diverse team of experts in machine learning and robotics. We were the first to deploy AVs on public roads with end-to-end deep learning. Today, our teams are based in London and California, and we're testing AVs in cities across the UK. Inspired by our vision for a smarter, safer, more sustainable world, we're looking for people who are passionate about building breakthrough solutions to some of the world’s most important challenges. If you're looking for an exciting opportunity with a dynamic team, get in touch!
