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 a DevOps / Cloud Infrastructure & CI/CD Engineer, you will help build, operate, and improve the cloud platforms, build systems, and continuous integration and delivery infrastructure that support Wayve’s software development lifecycle.
Working as part of a team, you’ll focus on creating reliable, scalable, secure, and efficient environments for software development, testing, deployment, and release. This is a hands-on role with opportunities to deepen your expertise in cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, build systems, developer tooling, automation, observability, and platform engineering.
- Build, operate, and improve cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and build systems supporting development, testing, and production.
- Develop and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code, automation, and developer tooling to enable reliable, repeatable delivery.
- Operate and scale CI/CD services, including build agents, runners, artifact storage, and containerised workloads.
- Implement observability, monitor system health, and troubleshoot infrastructure, pipeline, and deployment issues.
- Work with engineering teams to ensure platforms meet application needs and support scalable software delivery.
- Contribute to incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement of infrastructure and operational practices.
Essential
- Strong troubleshooting, problem-solving, and communication skills.
- 5 years of experience in DevOps, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, build engineering, developer infrastructure, or related engineering roles.
- Experience with one or more of the following:
- At least one cloud platform, such as Azure, AWS, or GCP.
- Infrastructure-as-Code tools, such as Terraform and Ansible.
- CI/CD platforms such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Buildkite, Azure DevOps, or similar.
- Build tooling and concepts including dependency management, caching, incremental builds, and reproducible builds.
- Networking, cloud architecture, system reliability, and secure access controls.Experience with Linux, Git, and shell scripting.
Desirable
- Experience with build systems such as Bazel, Buildkite, or similar.
- Experience operating CI/CD infrastructure at scale, including distributed execution, caching, and artifact management.
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and container-based build or deployment environments.
- Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK.
- Understanding of software supply-chain security, secure build practices, and cloud security best practices.
- Experience supporting large, multi-language codebases or distributed systems.
- Experience improving cloud cost efficiency and operational resilience.
This is a full-time role based in our office in Tokyo, Japan. 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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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.
Skills Required
- 5 years of experience in DevOps, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, build engineering, developer infrastructure, or related engineering roles
- Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
- Strong communication skills
- Experience with at least one cloud platform such as Azure, AWS, or GCP
- Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform or Ansible
- Experience with CI/CD platforms such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Buildkite, or Azure DevOps
- Experience with build tooling concepts including dependency management, caching, incremental builds, and reproducible builds
- Experience with networking, cloud architecture, system reliability, and secure access controls
- Experience with Linux, Git, and shell scripting
- Experience with Bazel, Buildkite, or similar build systems
- Experience operating CI/CD infrastructure at scale, including distributed execution, caching, and artifact management
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and container-based build or deployment environments
- Familiarity with Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or similar monitoring and observability tools
- Understanding of software supply-chain security, secure build practices, and cloud security best practices
- Experience supporting large, multi-language codebases or distributed systems
- Experience improving cloud cost efficiency and operational resilience
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!
