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Senior Software Engineer - Runtime Platform, Robot Software
Wayve · 🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
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About the role
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. Very few people in AI can say this. Every role here, whatever the team, plugs into that. Here’s what this particular role covers. 🛠️ About our Engineering Teams Wayve’s Robot Software teams build the onboard runtime that allows autonomy applications to execute reliably across our development fleet. The Runtime Platform area focuses on the foundations shared by vehicle applications: process lifecycle, communication, resource management, diagnostics, performance, and the developer tooling needed to operate complex software on embedded compute. As a Software Engineer, Runtime Platform, you’ll help make Wayve’s onboard software faster, more predictable, and easier to build, debug, and deploy. Your work will sit close to the operating system and application framework and will affect many teams across the autonomy stack. 🧠 Your day-to-day • Design, implement, test, and maintain runtime-platform components in C++. • Profile and debug CPU, memory, latency, scheduling, I/O, and inter-process communication issues. • Build observability and diagnostics for software running on remote vehicle compute. • Work with application teams to understand performance and reliability needs. • Improve developer workflows for building, deploying, testing, and troubleshooting onboard services. • Contribute to design reviews, documentation, testing strategy, and platform roadmaps • . 🧩 What you’ll be working on • Application lifecycle and service management on embedded Linux or QNX systems. • High-throughput, low-latency inter-process communication for robotics workloads. • Resource management, scheduling, startup, shutdown, fault handling, and recovery. • Profiling and performance optimisation across CPU, memory, storage, networking, and accelerators. • Runtime metrics, logging, tracing, crash diagnostics, and fleet-level observability. • Reusable platform APIs that support multiple vehicle and compute configurations. 🙌 You should apply if • You have strong modern C++ experience and a solid foundation in systems programming. • You understand Linux processes, threads, memory, scheduling, networking, and IPC. • You can debug complex performance and reliability problems across multiple software layers. • You have experience building production software for embedded, robotics, automotive, infrastructure, or distributed systems. • You care about clean interfaces, automated testing, observability, and developer experience. • You collaborate effectively with application, platform, hardware, and operations teams. Experience with QNX, ROS2 or similar middleware, real-time systems, embedded compute, tracing/profiling tools, or high-throughput robotics data pipelines would be valuable. 🌱 Not ticking every box? That’s totally okay! If you’re passionate about autonomy and keen to learn, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every requirement. More about Wayve: 🚀 Wayve is building the leading AI platform for autonomous driving. We are pioneering an end to end AI approach that enables vehicles to learn directly from real world experience, developing the ability to adapt, generalise and improve at scale. Instead of relying on hand coded rules or pre mapped environments, our AI Driver learns to drive by understanding the world around it. The result is technology that navigates complex urban environments with intelligence, precision and natural flow, unlocking meaningful advances in both safety and efficiency. We believe autonomy represents a once in a generation transformation in how people and goods move, comparable to the shift from hor