System Test Automation Engineer

Overview

In this role you will own automated verification for a portion of Wayve’s embedded software stack, improving coverage, reliability, and traceability. You will build hardware-in-the-loop tests and expand test infrastructure to support verification and debugging across software and hardware boundaries. You collaborate across hardware, software, and DevOps to deliver fast, reliable test results and risk-aware release decisions. This hands-on position offers growth into broader system areas and influencing testing practices in a rapidly evolving autonomy stack.

Pay / Benefits

• hybrid working
• learning and development budgets
• health insurance
• dental
• enhanced maternity/paternity leave
• retirement plan

Responsibilities

• Develop automation for system functionality tests across component, integration and system levels
• Lead root-cause investigations for failures identified during tests
• Analyze results, identify software/hardware defects, and report findings in Jira with evidence
• Optimize Buildkite CI/CD-integrated test workflows
• Review and follow risk assessments to ensure safe testing activities
• Design and deliver automated verification for a defined area of the embedded software stack
• Build HIL replay tests and reliability/fault-injection tests
• Automate HIL test setups and improve test infrastructure
• Integrate requirements, coverage and compliance workflows (Jama, MC/DC, MISRA) and manage artefacts (Artifactory, Azure)
• Develop traceability dashboards and define KPIs for data-driven validation and release decisions

Key requirements

• Hands-on experience with system-level verification and validation in robotics, embedded software or mechatronic systems
• Proficiency in Python and experience with pytest-based automation frameworks
• Experience with HIL testing and tooling (CAN, Ethernet, GMSL) and tools from dSPACE, Vector, Xylon
• Know-how of open-loop and closed-loop HIL replay testing using dSPACE or emulators
• Familiarity with automotive safety/process standards (ISO 26262, ASPICE, SOTIF) and requirements/test-management tools (Jama, Xray)
• Proficiency in CI/CD concepts and tools (GitLab CI, Buildkite, Bazel)
• Experience developing/testing automotive software at embedded/system level, including hardware/software interfaces and L2+/L3/L4 autonomous driving
• Knowledge of safety/regulatory testing (Euro NCAP, UN R171, ISO/SAE 21434, UN R155) and test dashboards/logging tools (Grafana, Looker, Datadog, Jira)
• Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration across software, hardware, DevOps and product teams
• Nice-to-have: experience with agentic AI coding tools (Cursor, Claude Code)
• Familiarity with data management and version control (Git)

• clear communication
• self-starter
• cross-functional collaboration
• Python
• pytest
• HIL testing

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