Senior Automation Engineering

Before the detail, here's the challenge you'd help us solve. We build the embodied intelligence that moves real vehicles safely, and the ecosystem a billion machines will run on in the future. About our Engineering Teams
Wayve’s engineering teams are building the AI, robotics, simulation, data, and systems foundations needed to deploy a generalisable AI Driver safely and at scale.
The Triage and Detective Engineering teams identify, understand, and help resolve issues across Wayve’s test and on-road fleets. This role scales that work by turning repeated manual investigation into reliable automation, reusable tooling, and measurable workflows.
Observe, document, and measure current Triage and Detective workflows to identify high-value automation opportunities.
Build automation pipelines, triage bots, behavioural classifiers, and workflow tooling.
Validate automation accuracy, reliability, suggested classifications, and root-cause outputs.
Document each automation’s purpose, operation, expected outputs, and limitations.
Track triage quality and throughput to demonstrate impact and guide the roadmap.
Automation that reduces manual analysis and accelerates issue identification across autonomous-vehicle fleets.
Productised pipelines spanning Python, SQL, Bash, Linux, notebooks, cloud tooling, and issue-management systems.
Cross-functional problems at the intersection of safety, machine learning, software engineering, and operations.
You have 3+ years working with complex technical systems, ideally in robotics or autonomous vehicles.
You are strong in Python, SQL, and Bash or shell scripting and comfortable in remote Linux environments.
You have built or maintained data pipelines, notebooks, or cloud-triggered automation.
Experience with Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket or GitLab, Databricks or Jupyter is valuable; ML classifiers, web tooling, or Azure experience is a plus.

Wayve is building the leading AI platform for autonomous driving. Wayve’s mapless and hardware-agnostic AI platform integrates with global OEM partners, enabling continuous software evolution from L2+ through to L4.

How we work — Locations & Flexible Working
This role is based in Sunnyvale and follows Wayve’s hybrid working model. The role requires regular in-office collaboration and may include domestic and international travel, including visits to London.

Technical interviews covering workflow development, system design, and automation/programming
Meaningful equity

• ✈️ Relocation support and visa sponsorship where applicable
• ✅ Hybrid working and access to vehicle workshops and labs
• Comprehensive location-dependent health, family, retirement, and wellbeing benefits

Wayve is not a mature, fully-structured place with the playbook already written. Much of how we work is still being written, and if you join, you’ll help write it. That suits people who want real ownership more than people who need a settled structure from day one.
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.
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.