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.
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We are looking for an experienced Solution Architect to support the integration of Wayve’s autonomous driving technology with automotive OEM vehicle platforms. In this role, you will work at the boundary between Wayve’s core AI Driver architecture and OEM / Tier 1 vehicle systems. You will help define how Wayve software interfaces with vehicle platforms, including sensors, vehicle signals, middleware, ECU constraints, timing, diagnostics, safety assumptions, data logging, and validation. The ideal candidate can translate product and customer needs into clear technical specifications, understand both high-level system architecture and implementation details, and help ensure that Wayve’s solution integrates safely, efficiently, and consistently across customer programs. You will be expected to work independently within your scope, handle ambiguous technical problems, identify dependencies and risks, and keep stakeholders aligned.
Key responsibilities:
- Define and manage the technical architecture for customer vehicle integration, focusing on the interface between Wayve software and OEM / Tier 1 vehicle systems.
- Collaborate with Product Management to translate product requirements and customer program needs into actionable technical specifications.
- Define and document integration boundaries with OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers, including what is Wayve-owned, partner-owned, jointly defined, or out of scope.
- Translate ambiguous customer or partner discussions into explicit ownership boundaries, interface contracts, assumptions, dependencies, and open technical decisions.
- Work closely with Software Architects to assess technical feasibility and ensure customer program integration needs are aligned with Wayve’s core architecture.
- Coordinate with Validation Engineers to define integration test requirements and ensure customer program requirements are verifiable.
- Develop and maintain program-facing technical documentation, including interface specifications, integration guides, ownership boundary definitions, architecture diagrams, and decision records.
- Support customer program planning by identifying integration complexity, dependencies, technical gaps, technical risks, and required partner deliverables.
- Participate in OEM and Tier 1 technical discussions, representing Wayve’s product architecture, integration approach, and technical assumptions.
- Act as a technical bridge between customer programs and Wayve internal teams, ensuring customer-specific integration needs are clearly understood without unnecessarily fragmenting the core product architecture.
About you
In order to set you up for success as a Solution Architect at Wayve, we’re looking for the following skills and experience.
Essential
- System & SW architecture expertise: Experience defining or contributing to technical architecture for ADAS, autonomous driving, embedded software, or vehicle systems, especially at the software–vehicle interface.
- Product Boundary definition: Ability to define clear technical boundaries, ownership models, assumptions, dependencies, and interface contracts between internal software and external vehicle systems.
- Vehicle and embedded software understanding: Good understanding of vehicle electronics, embedded software constraints, ECU integration, real-time execution, timing, diagnostics, and production vehicle software environments.
- Automotive communication and E/E architecture: Knowledge of automotive communication protocols and architectures, such as CAN, FlexRay, Automotive Ethernet, SOME/IP, AUTOSAR, or equivalent.
- OEM integration experience: Experience working with, or integrating systems for, automotive OEMs or Tier 1 suppliers. Ability to support discussions on OEM-specific requirements, standards, and integration constraints.
- Requirements and specification quality: Ability to translate product requirements and customer discussions into clear technical specifications, interface requirements, and validation-ready requirements.
- Cross-functional multidisciplinary experience: Proven ability to work effectively across Product, Software Architecture, Hardware, Calibrations, System Safety, Validation, and customer-facing teams, including Field Application Engineering. Experience should span unit-level, subsystem-level, and system-level discussions, with the ability to align technical decisions across engineering domains and translate customer or product needs into practical architectural solutions.
- Technical communication: Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain complex architecture topics clearly through documents, diagrams, and technical reviews.
Desirable
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field
- Experience working as a Tier 1 supplier in the automotive industry
- Knowledge of generative AI, LLMs, and transformer architectures
- Familiarity with end-to-end approaches in autonomous driving
- Experience with automotive OEM integration projects
- Hands-on experience with embedded Linux, QNX, Adaptive AUTOSAR, DDS, SOME/IP, or custom automotive middleware.
- Experience with sensor integration, including cameras, radar, IMU, GNSS, calibration, timestamping, and synchronization.
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.
This is a full-time role based in California & Tokyo. 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.
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
- Experience defining technical architecture for ADAS or autonomous driving
- Ability to define clear technical boundaries and interface contracts
- Good understanding of vehicle electronics and embedded software
- Knowledge of automotive communication protocols
- Experience working with automotive OEMs or Tier 1 suppliers
- Ability to translate product requirements into technical specifications
- Proven ability to work across multidisciplinary teams
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
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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!
