wayve - Controls Engineer
Requirements
• Strong fundamentals in control theory, with applied experience in one or more of optimization, model-predictive control, numerical methods or dynamical systems • Practical experience developing, tuning and validating motion control on complex real world physical systems (e.g., direct experience with mobile robotics and/or autonomous vehicles) • Experience with test and validation discipline: unit and integration tests, simulation regression suites, closed-loop metrics. • Strong software engineering skills, with experience building reliable production-quality systems in C++ • Experience with latency-sensitive or real-time software • Ability to reason about and debug system-level behaviour in complex robotic systems across software and hardware • Applied machine learning experience, or experience developing systems that integrate with ML components • Vehicle dynamics and actuation. Steering, braking and powertrain interfaces, actuator delay models, and CAN or similar vehicle bus experience • Experience in the automotive industry, including ADAS or vehicle controls • Experience with safety-critical systems, validation, and relevant industry standards (e.g. ISO 26262) • Experience with monitoring and diagnostics: Logging, fault detection, and on-platform debugging tools, ideally with experience investigating field issues • Experience across multiple platforms or vehicles. The team supports vehicle-to-vehicle variation, such as accounting for parameter identification, calibration, and keeping one software stack across hardware variants • 🌱 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
• Develop, integrate, tune, and validate control, trajectory-generation, and action-processing algorithms across different vehicle platforms, operating modes, and challenging driving conditions, ensuring robust real-world performance • Maintain and evolve our controls software architecture that connects AI Driver outputs to real-time vehicle actuation and feedback • Own requirements, release readiness, and in-field performance and issue triage • Implement and maintain production-quality, latency-sensitive control software in C++ for deployment to prototype, reference and production vehicles • Use simulation, closed-loop evaluation and on-road testing to characterize controller behaviour, diagnose performance issues and validate improvements • Work with teams across Wayve to define controller interfaces, integrate with adjacent systems and enable new vehicle platforms and product features (Ownership through the full lifecycle) • Define and track quality metrics (e.g., comfort, tracking error, and safety margin KPIs, and regressions against them) • Contribute to safety artefacts: provide evidence for safety cases, work with the safety team to ensure compliance with required standards • 🧩 What you’ll be working on: • In this role you will develop and improve the vehicle trajectory and motion controllers that translate the Wayve AI Driver outputs into safe, smooth and robust vehicle motion across different vehicle platforms and applications (both ADAS and AV). You’ll tackle cutting-edge challenges: developing principled controls approaches, implementing real time systems, testing in complex scenarios and refining our evaluation pipelines. This is a great chance to make an impact on the AV industry and grow alongside a focused team of passionate experts at the forefront of autonomous driving technology.
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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