Test Engineer

Overview

As a Test Engineer for Wayve’s Germany team, you will own automated verification within a defined area of the embedded software stack. You’ll build robust test automation, drive root-cause analysis across teams, and raise coverage, reliability, and traceability. The role offers hands-on delivery with potential growth into sensing and model-behaviour testing as the company evolves. You’ll contribute to scaling autonomous driving verification in a cutting-edge AI-driven platform. A strong hook: you help shape Germany’s AV capabilities from the ground up within a mission-driven, fast-paced environment.

Pay / Benefits

• hybrid working model
• learning and development budgets
• meaningful equity
• relocation support and visa sponsorship
• health insurance, dental, enhanced maternity/paternity leave
• wellbeing partnerships

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver automated verification for a defined area of the embedded software stack
• Develop reusable test automation across component, integration, and system levels
• Lead root-cause investigations for failures across hardware, software, and infra teams
• Optimize CI/CD-integrated test workflows for fast, reliable execution
• Integrate third-party verification tools (JAMA, MC/DC, MISRA) and manage artefacts via Artifactory and Azure
• Define and track KPIs and quality metrics for system testing
• Uncover bugs through increased test coverage and report findings in JIRA
• Identify infrastructure improvements to boost coverage, traceability, and reporting
• Review and adhere to risk assessments to ensure safe testing practices

Key requirements

• Hands-on system-level verification/validation in robotics, embedded software, or mechatronics
• Experience with L2+ hands-off, L3, or L4 automated driving systems
• Knowledge of safety and regulatory testing (Euro NCAP, UN R171, ISO/SAE 21434, UN R155)
• Experience with HiL testing and tooling (CAN, Ethernet, GMSL, dSPACE, Vector, Xylon)
• Strong Python skills and automation framework development (pytest)
• Interface-level testing across hardware/software boundaries
• Experience integrating quality assurance tools/standards (ASPICE, SOTIF, ISO 26262, JAMA, X-RAY)
• Knowledge of open/closed-loop HiL replay using dSPACE or emulators
• Proficiency in CI/CD (GitLab CI, Buildkite, Bazel) and test dashboards/logging (Grafana, Looker, Datadog, JIRA)
• Cross-functional collaboration across software, hardware, autonomy, DevOps, and product teams

• Strong cross-functional communication
• self-starter and improvement mindset
• team collaboration
• Python automation for test frameworks (pytest)
• HiL testing tools (dSPACE, Vector, Xylon)
• CI/CD tooling (GitLab CI, Buildkite, Bazel)

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