Job Description
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.
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
Join Wayve’s Onboard Experience team to lead the technical direction of the in-vehicle web experience that helps people see and trust what an autonomous vehicle is doing in real time. You will own a high-impact product used in live vehicle operations, spanning camera/video, 2D overlays, and 3D spatial visualisation of the vehicle’s surroundings. This is a rare opportunity to build reliable, safety-critical software under real-world constraints while shaping how complex AI systems are presented to humans. You will work closely with operators and engineers, balancing rapid iteration with robustness, performance, and maintainability.
Key responsibilities
- Lead architecture and technical strategy across web, backend, and in-vehicle environments, setting standards for reliability, performance, and code quality.
- Drive the evolution of real-time visualisation features, including camera/video + overlays and 3D spatial rendering of trajectories, perception, and occupancy.
- Partner with operators, product, safety, and engineering stakeholders to prioritise and deliver improvements that measurably increase usability and operational efficiency.
- Mentor engineers and raise the bar on engineering practices, including testing, observability, incident readiness, and long-term maintainability.
- Make pragmatic trade-offs in a constrained, intermittently connected environment, ensuring the system remains dependable in live demos and day-to-day operations.
About you
In order to set you up for success as a Staff Fullstack Software Engineer at Wayve, we’re looking for the following skills and experience.
Essential
- Proven experience leading technical design and delivery of complex software systems across frontend and backend.
- Strong fullstack expertise in React and TypeScript, plus backend services and APIs, with confidence making architecture decisions and aligning multiple engineers.
- Experience setting technical direction across multi-platform surfaces (web + Android/in-vehicle), and ensuring cohesive integration end-to-end.
- Demonstrated ability to build and operate production systems with high reliability expectations, including incident readiness and long-term maintainability.
- Strong understanding of performance constraints in rich, interactive web UIs, including rendering, memory, and handling high-frequency / real-time data.
- Track record of driving engineering quality through pragmatic practices: testing strategy, observability, monitoring, and clear ownership.
- Ability to work with high autonomy in ambiguous problem spaces and make effective trade-offs between speed, reliability, and maintainability.
- Strong cross-functional collaboration skills, able to translate operator and stakeholder needs into technical plans and prioritised delivery.
- Experience mentoring engineers through design reviews, pairing, feedback, and setting team standards.
Desirable
- Experience building real-time visualisation products (video + overlays, telemetry dashboards, spatial visualisation) where latency and correctness matter.
- Hands-on experience with browser-based 3D rendering (WebGL, Three.js, React Three Fiber), including scene graph design and real-time update loops.
- Experience building software for constrained environments, including intermittent connectivity and strict reliability requirements.
- Familiarity with in-vehicle or embedded-adjacent constraints, and integrating with hardware or platform-specific systems.
- Experience improving usability for real operational users through rapid iteration loops, research, and measurable product impact.
- Experience establishing or evolving technical standards across a codebase: architecture patterns, libraries, tooling, and release processes.
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.
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.
For more information visit Careers at Wayve.
To learn more about what drives us, visit Values at Wayve
DISCLAIMER: We will not ask about marriage or pregnancy, care responsibilities or disabilities in any of our job adverts or interviews. However, we do look to capture information about care responsibilities, and disabilities among other diversity information as part of an optional DEI Monitoring form to help us identify areas of improvement in our hiring process and ensure that the process is inclusive and non-discriminatory.
