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.
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Site Reliability Engineer - Vehicle Software
The roleAs a Site Reliability Engineer at Wayve, you will work across the full reliability stack for our vehicle software: observability, incident management, operator tooling, and the automation that lets engineering and operations teams detect, triage, and resolve issues faster. You will work closely with software engineers, field engineers, and operations, debugging real systems, improving real processes, and having direct impact on how our vehicles perform in production.
Wayve is scaling its autonomous vehicle programs with partners, and you will help shape the SRE approach for vehicle-centric systems as that happens. This is not a role where reliability sits on top of the real work, it is central to it.
Key responsibilities- Build and improve tooling, automation, observability, and incident-management processes for vehicle software reliability.
- Work closely with field engineers, software teams, and operations to diagnose reliability issues and improve system performance.
- Own hands-on debugging across Linux, low-level systems, logs, metrics, traces, and vehicle and production data.
- Develop reliability improvements that reduce manual intervention and make issue detection, triage, and recovery faster.
- Support vehicle-centric operations, including safety-operator tools and the reliability needs of our customer and partner programs.
- You will write production-quality code every day in Python, C++, or Rust. This is a software engineering role as much as a reliability role, and coding is central to the work.
- Comfortable debugging at the Linux and systems level, reading logs, tracing failures, and finding root cause in complex environments.
- Experience with CI/CD, containerization, networking, distributed systems, databases, and observability and incident-management tooling, including DataDog, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Splunk, or Humio.
- Experience diagnosing complex production or operational systems, not just escalating, but seeing problems through to resolution.
- The communication skills to work effectively across engineering, operations, and field teams, and the judgment to know when to bring others in.
- Based in Sunnyvale and able to be onsite at least three days a week to work alongside the field teams you will support.
- Experience with autonomous vehicles, robotics, embedded systems, or safety-critical environments. We know this is rare, and it is not a barrier to applying.
- Experience with large-scale telemetry or high-volume data pipelines.
- Familiarity with vehicle-centric or on-device software systems.
This is a full-time role based in our office in Sunnyvale. 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. The reasonably estimated salary for this role ranges from $209,700 to $266,800, plus a competitive equity package. Actual compensation is based on the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience.
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.
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Skills Required
- Production-quality programming experience in Python, C++, or Rust
- Linux and systems-level debugging experience
- Experience with CI/CD, containerization, networking, distributed systems, and databases
- Experience with observability and incident-management tooling such as DataDog, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Splunk, or Humio
- Experience diagnosing complex production or operational systems through resolution
- Effective communication across engineering, operations, and field teams
- Based in Sunnyvale and able to work onsite at least three days per week
- Experience with autonomous vehicles, robotics, embedded systems, or safety-critical environments
- Experience with large-scale telemetry or high-volume data pipelines
- Familiarity with vehicle-centric or on-device software systems
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!
