Principal Engineer, Software Platform

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London, Greater London, England
7+ Years Experience
Artificial Intelligence • Transportation
The Role
Principal Engineer role at Wayve, a leader in autonomous vehicle technology, focusing on software performance, system software, and complex systems. Responsibilities include technical decision-making, mentoring, and contributing to engineering roadmaps. Requires experience as a tech lead with deep understanding of system software and communication skills with senior stakeholders. Full-time role in London with hybrid working policy. Competitive compensation and benefits offered.
Summary Generated by Built In

Established in 2017, Wayve is a leader in autonomous vehicle technology, driven by breakthroughs in Embodied AI. Our intelligent, mapless, and hardware-agnostic technologies empower vehicles to navigate complex environments effortlessly. 

Supported by prominent investors, Wayve is advancing the transition from assisted to fully automated driving, making transportation safer, more efficient, and universally accessible. Join our world-class, multinational team of engineers and researchers as we push the boundaries of frontier AI and autonomous driving, creating impactful technologies and products on a global scale

  • Ensuring software performance and efficiency end-to-end., working between embedded and distributed infrastructure on one side, and machine learning (training and inference) and robotics use cases on the other side
  • Anticipating technical roadblocks – feasibility, schedule delays, complex interdependencies
  • Contributing to the definition and execution of engineering roadmaps
  • Making tough technical decisions putting in balance velocity, serviceability, sustainability
  • Setting and holding a high bar of software engineering practices – design, coding, test
  • Being a mentor to tech leads and managers across the software engineering organisation

  • Experience as tech lead of teams or projects spanning 20+ software engineers
  • Deep understanding of system software, from hardware level to distributed systems
  • Experience in designing and implementing  software for complex systems
  • Experience delivering complex systems into production, and supporting them post-production
  • Experience communicating with senior stakeholders including executives

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 anonsite chef, workplace nursery scheme, private health insurance, cycle scheme, therapy, yoga, two onsite bars, large social budgets 
  • 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 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.


Top Skills

Python,Java
The Company
HQ: London
200 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 2017

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!

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