wayve - Senior Software Engineer, Data and Orchestration
Requirements
• Experience in data engineering, data platforms, workflow orchestration or pipeline infrastructure • Experience with machine learning infrastructure, inference systems or ML performance optimisation • Exposure to large-scale batch processing, compute scheduling or resource prioritisation • Experience with tools or frameworks such as Ray, Flyte or Spark • Experience building shared libraries, developer tooling or internal platforms used across multiple teams • 🌱 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.
Responsibilities
• You'll help evolve Wayve's data pipeline platform. That means revamping our existing Harness system and building a new DAG-based orchestration system for our fleet's next-generation data volumes. You'll work on infrastructure used across the company, supporting high-priority data runs, batch inference, evaluations and business-critical incident response, and you'll work closely with partner teams to understand what they need from their pipelines. • 🧩 What you'll be working on • Designing, building and evolving scalable data pipeline and orchestration infrastructure for Wayve's next-generation autonomous driving data platform • Revamping the existing Harness system and developing a new DAG-based workflow platform • Building tooling and libraries that make data ingestion, processing, inference and evaluation workflows simple, reliable and consistent across teams • Making sure the platform runs hundreds of parallel pipeline steps efficiently, with correct outputs, no conflicts and effective resource prioritisation • Supporting batch inference and performance optimisation workflows, so teams can run evaluations in a cost-effective and scalable way • Improving platform reliability, quality and usability, including incident response workflows aligned to business-defined SLOs • 🙌 You should apply if • You have strong software engineering fundamentals and experience designing, building and maintaining production-grade systems • You have solid Python programming skills • You have worked with systems at scale, ideally involving distributed systems, large data volumes or high-throughput processing • You understand software engineering best practices, including unit testing, integration testing, test-driven development and data-driven development • You are familiar with distributed event streaming platforms such as Apache Kafka • You understand database principles and consistency models, including eventual consistency, strong consistency and distributed data systems • You are familiar with traditional databases or data warehouses such as Postgres, ClickHouse or column-oriented databases • You work well with platform users and partner teams, turning their requirements into scalable technical solutions
Benefits
• 💰 Salaries benchmarked against the market annually • 📈 Meaningful equity, sharing in the ownership and long term success of Wayve • ✈️ Relocation support and visa sponsorship where applicable • ✅ Hybrid working, core hours and the chance to work hands on in vehicle workshops and labs • 📚 Learning and development budgets with support for training, conferences and growth • 🩺 Comprehensive benefits including health insurance, dental, enhanced maternity and paternity leave, retirement or pension where applicable, access to therapists, wellbeing partnerships, team socials and more • 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. • If that sounds like the kind of problem you want to spend your time on, we’d really like to hear from you. • 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. https://wayve.ai/careers/ To learn more about what drives us, visit Values at Wayve https://wayve.ai/careers/
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