wayve - Senior Software Engineer - Runtime Platform, Robot Software
Responsibilities
• Design, build, and maintain shared onboard application frameworks and developer interfaces. • Develop application lifecycle management, health monitoring, fault reporting, and runtime diagnostics. • Evolve Wayve’s communication middleware by evaluating technologies, migrating components, and supporting new operating systems and compute platforms. • Investigate latency and performance bottlenecks across the full onboard software stack. • Instrument software with profiling tools and metrics to identify optimisation opportunities. • Collaborate with engineering teams to understand performance pain points and prioritise improvements by impact. • Work with internal teams and middleware suppliers to resolve integration issues and establish shared APIs, documentation, and best practices. • 🧩 What you’ll be working on • Communication middleware and high-throughput, low-latency inter-process communication. • Application lifecycle, system health monitoring, fault reporting, and runtime resource management. • End-to-end profiling across OS scheduling, memory hierarchy, CPU caches, context switching, thread synchronisation, and critical code paths. • New profiling and instrumentation tools for benchmarking system performance and establishing baselines. • Automated benchmarks and CI checks that detect performance regressions and validate runtime behaviour across supported platforms. • Ports and integrations across new operating systems, vehicle compute, and hardware platforms. • Observability infrastructure for logs, metrics, traces, and fleet-level performance analysis. • 🙌 You should apply if • You have strong software-development experience in C++. • You are proficient with performance-profiling tools and techniques for finding and resolving system bottlenecks. • You have a proven, methodical approach to designing experiments and evaluating results. • You have a strong foundation in OS scheduling, computer architecture, memory hierarchy, CPU caches, context switching, and thread synchronisation. • You have developed or maintained middleware, application frameworks, communication infrastructure, lifecycle management, or shared runtime services. • You can design maintainable interfaces and help multiple engineering teams integrate and adopt shared software components. • You can collaborate across teams to turn performance data into clear architectural and optimisation decisions. • Deep experience with communication middleware or application-framework design would be especially valuable. Experience porting systems software across operating systems and hardware platforms, building automated performance benchmarks in CI, or using NVIDIA tools such as Nsight, Lumos, and tegrastat is also relevant. Familiarity with Grafana, Databricks, Datadog, QNX, or Momentics is a plus. • 🌱 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.
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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