Senior Embedded Software Test Engineer, Onboard Test Automation

Overview

In this role you validate onboard software before full-vehicle testing, ensuring reliability across embedded compute platforms. You’ll build automated tests, enable faster iteration, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to close test gaps. Your work helps scale validation from early stages toward real-world deployment. This is a hands-on, impact-driven position at Wayve’s onboard test automation team with a strong emphasis on acceleration and reliability in autonomous driving software.

Pay / Benefits

• Salary benchmarked against market
• Equity participation
• Relocation support and visa sponsorship
• Hybrid working with core hours
• Learning and development budgets
• Comprehensive benefits incl. health/dental, enhanced parental leave, retirement/ pension, wellbeing support

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and run automated tests for onboard subsystems (OS, middleware, sensors, integration points)
• Validate software on embedded hardware within hardware-in-the-loop environments
• Identify test gaps with software engineers and improve coverage for new and existing features
• Debug and triage system-level issues across software and hardware boundaries
• Contribute to CI pipelines and reusable test frameworks to enable self-service testing
• Expand test coverage by reusing validation tests and bringing them earlier in development cycle
• Perform automated integration and system-level testing for embedded Linux or QNX software
• Conduct hardware-in-the-loop validation across multiple compute platforms
• Run reliability checks for sensor pipelines, timing, latency, data integrity, and dropped messages
• Improve observability to reproduce intermittent failures
• Help validate software changes earlier to reduce risk during full-vehicle testing
• Develop test frameworks to boost developer velocity and confidence in robot software

Key requirements

• Experience testing embedded software systems, ideally on Linux or QNX
• Ability to develop automated tests in Python, C++, or similar
• Hands-on experience with embedded hardware and software interactions
• Ability to debug complex system-level problems using logs, metrics, and controlled experiments
• Understanding of automation, integration testing and system validation principles
• Comfort collaborating across software, hardware and infrastructure teams
• Experience with HiL environments, sensor/data pipelines, CI/CD (e.g., Buildkite), robotics, autonomous systems, or real-time software (valued)

• collaboration across teams
• problem solving and debugging
• high attention to reliability
• Embedded Linux or QNX
• Python
• C++

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