Software Engineer
Wayve is a London-based autonomous driving company whose AI driver learns directly from camera data and real-world experience. They're hiring a Software Engineer to work across the systems that support model development and vehicle deployment, based hybrid in London. This software engineering role sits within the UK's autonomous vehicles sector.
About us
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!
The role
We’re looking for a Software Engineer to join our AI Libraries team. This team builds and maintains the platforms, libraries, and tools that enable Wayve’s ML engineers and researchers to train, evaluate, and scale models efficiently.
This is a hands-on software engineering role focused on building stable, scalable, and modular systems that support large-scale ML development. You’ll work closely with ML teams across Wayve to understand their needs, design reusable abstractions, and improve the reliability, performance, and usability of our training infrastructure.
You’ll play a key role in maturing Wayve’s AI platform and helping bring autonomous driving technology into the hands of customers.
Key responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain scalable Python libraries and tools used by ML engineers and researchers across Wayve.
- Develop robust abstractions for data loading, distributed training, inference, checkpointing, and model evaluation workflows.
- Support training at scale across large GPU clusters and cloud-based infrastructure.
- Work closely with ML teams to understand user needs and create tools that are reliable, well-documented, observable, and easy to adopt.
- Improve engineering quality across ML systems through strong software architecture, testing, monitoring, and maintainability practices.
- Optimise data and training pipelines to support multi-modal data sources, including camera, radar, lidar, and other sensor data.
- Contribute to the evolution of Wayve’s AI platform as we scale our autonomous driving capabilities.
About you
We’re looking for a strong software engineer who enjoys building high-quality tools, platforms, and libraries for technical users. You care about clean abstractions, scalable architecture, reliability, and creating software that other engineers can depend on.
Essential skills
- Strong Python programming experience.Proven experience designing, building, and maintaining software systems from concept through to delivery.
- Strong software architecture and system design skills.Experience building tools, platforms, or libraries for internal or external users.Strong understanding of testing, observability, maintainability, and engineering best practices.
- Experience working with cloud environments, ideally Azure.
- Experience with concurrent, parallel, or distributed computing.
- Familiarity with ML frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, or PyTorch Lightning.
- Ability to work closely with technical stakeholders to refine requirements and deliver practical, scalable solutions.
Desirable skills
- Experience working with large GPU clusters or distributed training environments.
- Familiarity with distributed training techniques such as DDP or FSDP.
- Experience with observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or OpenTelemetry.
- Experience with data pipeline orchestration tools such as Airflow, Flyte, Ray, Metaflow, or Argo Workflows.
- Experience with containerisation and infrastructure tooling such as Docker, Kubernetes, or Terraform.Experience profiling or optimising ML systems, for example using NVIDIA Nsight.
- Understanding of ML workflows and researcher experience, even if you are not focused on model development.
What we’re not looking for
This is not primarily an ML modelling role. While an understanding of ML workflows is valuable, the core focus is on building reliable software, libraries, infrastructure, and tooling that enable ML teams to work effectively at scale.
Why join us?
- Work on high-impact systems that directly support the development of autonomous driving technology.
- Help scale training and evaluation infrastructure across large GPU clusters.
- Build software used by ML engineers and researchers working at the frontier of embodied AI.
- Join a team focused on strong engineering standards, practical abstractions, and scalable platform design.
- Play a meaningful role in bringing autonomous driving technology closer to real-world deployment.
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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About Wayve
Wayve is a London-based autonomous driving company pioneering an AI-first approach to self-driving vehicles. Rather than relying on detailed 3D maps and hand-coded rules, Wayve uses end-to-end deep learning so its AI driver learns directly from camera data and real-world driving experience. The company has partnered with major automakers and logistics firms to bring its technology to production vehicles. Backed by SoftBank, NVIDIA, Microsoft, and Uber, Wayve closed a landmark $1.05B Series C in 2024, the largest ever AI funding round by a European company at the time, and has been in discussions for a potential $2B follow-on round.