System Architect - Robotaxi

Full-time

Wayve

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 are looking for a System Architect -Robotaxi to help shape how Wayve AI Driver is deployed across advanced autonomous driving and robotaxi systems.
This role requires a strong understanding of ADAS / autonomous driving system architecture across vehicle platforms, sensors, compute, safety, and application layers, together with the ability to translate that into clear product and integration architecture. You will help define how Wayve AI Driver integrates into OEM and robotaxi platforms in both hardware and software, while working closely with internal architecture leaders and external partners to ensure a coherent, deployable system.
The role also requires strong judgement on where deployment-specific requirements should influence Wayve’s own product architecture, integration approach, and technical roadmap. You will connect system-level understanding with practical implementation, helping ensure that Wayve’s technology can scale across multiple products, OEMs, and deployment models.
Key Responsibilities
Define system architecture for deploying Wayve AI Driver in robotaxi platforms and applications.
Translate robotaxi use cases, operational concepts, and deployment constraints into clear product, system, and integration requirements.
Define how Wayve AI Driver fits into robotaxi systems across compute, sensors, vehicle interfaces, safety mechanisms, and application-layer integration.
Identify where robotaxi-specific requirements should drive changes or additions in Wayve’s product architecture, integration strategy, and roadmap.
Work closely with internal architecture teams across AI, systems, safety, compute, sensors, and platform to maintain a coherent overall architecture.
Partner with OEMs, Tier1s, and robotaxi ecosystem partners on integration concepts, technical scope, architectural trade-offs, and deployment readiness.
Support architecture through implementation, including integration planning, technical reviews, bring-up, issue triage, and system-level debugging.
Communicate clearly across internal and external stakeholders, driving alignment on architecture, interfaces, assumptions, and key technical decisions.
About You
You are a strong systems thinker who can reason across robotics or autonomous driving systems without losing sight of practical implementation.
You understand how complex products come together across hardware, software, ML, safety, and vehicle integration, and you can turn that understanding into crisp architecture and actionable decisions. You are comfortable working across domain boundaries, aligning different internal architecture owners, and representing technical architecture clearly to external partners.
You combine architectural judgment with hands-on technical depth and strong communication.
Essential
Strong experience in system architecture, systems engineering, or solution architecture for autonomous driving, robotics, or complex embedded systems
Strong understanding of system architecture across sensors, compute, embedded software, vehicle integration, and safety
Experience defining product or integration architecture for complex, cross-functional systems
Ability to translate high-level product or deployment goals into concrete architectural requirements and trade-offs
Experience working across multiple technical domains and aligning different engineering stakeholders
Experience working with OEMs, Tier1s, or external technical partners
Strong written and verbal communication skills
Hands-on enough to support technical problem-solving, bring-up discussions, and integration trade-offs in practice
Desirable
Experience with robotaxi, L4, or eyes-off autonomous systems
Experience with AI or ML-based driving systems
Experience with functional safety, SOTIF, or fail-operational system concepts
Familiarity with automotive middleware, QNX, Linux, and embedded platform integration
Experience with remote assistance, teleoperation, HMI, or robotaxi application-layer integration
Experience bridging internal product architecture and external deployment or customer integration
This is a full-time role based in our office in Sunnyvale or London preferably. 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.
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.
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.

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