Distinguished Engineer, Embedded Vehicle Software

Overview

In this role you will define the architecture and lead the next generation of Wayve’s embedded vehicle software. You’ll influence OS, middleware, and hardware integration across teams and partners to enable scalable, production-ready autonomous-driving systems. You’ll work closely with automotive manufacturers and silicon partners to shape the platform and set engineering standards. This is a high-impact, hands-on leadership position with a clear path to define Wayve’s technical direction and delivery at scale. You’ll join a mission-driven team building safe, mapless autonomy across diverse hardware.

Pay / Benefits

• hybrid working with core hours
• relocation support and visa sponsorship
• comprehensive benefits including health and dental insurance
• enhanced maternity and paternity leave
• retirement support where applicable
• equity sharing and learning budgets

Responsibilities

• Define embedded software architectures for autonomous-driving systems
• Shape OS, middleware and hardware-abstraction roadmap for the next-generation autonomy platform
• Improve system architecture, performance, reliability, and scalability
• Evaluate and integrate embedded compute platforms from NVIDIA, Qualcomm and partners
• Mentor senior engineers and establish development practices and architectural principles
• Lead cross-functional technical programs spanning multiple teams and organisations
• Represent Wayve in technical discussions with OEMs, silicon partners and hardware architects
• Advocate for best-in-class software development processes and tools
• Collaborate with Vehicle Software, AI, hardware, systems, safety and OEM teams
• Engage with automotive customers and external partners to deliver production-ready solutions
• Translate constraints into architectural decisions and align multiple teams

Key requirements

• At least 15 years of professional software development experience
• Expertise in embedded systems for robotics or autonomous systems
• Experience delivering complex embedded systems at production scale
• Strong programming skills in C, C++, Python or Rust
• Experience with systems-performance analysis, optimization and tuning
• Led or influenced large cross-organization technical programmes (~100+ engineers)
• Ability to set technical direction and influence senior leadership
• Comfort working with external stakeholders including automotive manufacturers and partners
• Ability to represent Wayve as a primary technical leader in OEM discussions
• Translate complex constraints into clear architectural decisions and drive alignment across teams

• leadership and mentoring
• cross-functional collaboration
• excellent communication with external partners
• embedded systems
• operating systems and middleware
• hardware integration and performance optimization

…