Senior Software Engineer – Platform Integration, Robot Software

Overview

As a Software Engineer in Wayve’s Platform Integration team, you will bring up vehicle software on benches, HiL systems, and in cars, developing reusable components for scalable, cross-platform integration. You’ll diagnose cross-boundary issues and improve architectures for reliability, while building tooling and documentation to support long-term use. You’ll collaborate with hardware, safety, and reliability teams to enable safe deployment across multiple vehicle programs. This role offers hands-on vehicle work, embedded software, and production-grade development in a fast-evolving environment.

Pay / Benefits

• Salary benchmarking against market
• Meaningful equity
• Relocation support and visa sponsorship
• Hybrid working with core hours
• Learning and development budgets
• Comprehensive benefits including health insurance and wellbeing support

Responsibilities

• Support software bring-up on benches, HiL systems, and vehicles, including international test locations
• Develop and maintain vehicle-facing software components and shared frameworks
• Diagnose integration issues across software and hardware boundaries and drive them to resolution
• Identify architectural improvements to reduce bespoke work and improve reuse
• Build diagnostics, tooling, and metrics for robot-software reliability and performance
• Produce documentation and runbooks for long-term supportability
• Collaborate with hardware, safety, controls, calibration, and reliability teams
• New vehicle-program bring-up across embedded compute, sensors, networks, and software services
• Linux-based robotic and automotive systems with multi-process and distributed architectures
• ROS2 or similar middleware, node development, message interfaces, and system integration
• Sensor calibration, synchronisation, data validation, and system-level debugging
• Automotive-grade compute platforms such as NVIDIA DRIVE and Qualcomm Snapdragon Ride
• Vehicle communication systems including CAN and Automotive Ethernet
• Shared abstractions and frameworks that improve reliability across programs

Key requirements

• Strong software-development experience in C++, Python, or Rust
• Delivered production-quality software on Linux-based robotic, embedded, or automotive platforms
• Understanding of ROS2 or similar robotics middleware and distributed-system integration
• Hands-on experience integrating software with vehicle or embedded hardware
• Ability to diagnose complex problems using logs, telemetry, on-target tests, and systematic experimentation
• Understanding of vehicle sensors, networking, and platform bring-up

• Collaborative mindset
• Problem-solving orientation
• Documentation and knowledge-sharing
• C++, Python, or Rust
• Linux-based development
• ROS2 or similar middleware

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