Staff Robotics Engineer, AV Core

Overview

In Wayve’s AV Core, you will steer fault detection and fallback for driverless operation, working with ML experts to build robust hardware-and-software systems. You’ll contribute to the Core Model Safety initiative, focusing on collision avoidance, model understanding, and failure robustness. This senior role offers ownership, access to large-scale data, and collaboration with research, simulation, and applied engineering teams. You help shape safe, scalable autonomous driving capabilities and deploy them in real-world settings.

Responsibilities

• Set the technical strategy and roadmap for fault detection and fallback from a robotics systems perspective, defining scope, envelope, interfaces, and acceptance criteria
• Design and train fault detection mechanisms to enable robust driverless operation
• Collaborate across functions with ML, inference optimisation, software engineers, and other teams
• Lead integration into the shared driving stack and align decisions across teams, mentoring and communicating risks and trade-offs
• Improve overall robot system robustness beyond fault detection and fallback

Key requirements

• Robotics proficiency with real-world development and troubleshooting
• Track record of staff-level technical leadership (leading ambiguous programs across multiple teams)
• Exceptional technical judgement and communication (safety-relevant trade-offs and evidence-based decisions)
• Experience with Python and C++ for robotics

• Technical leadership
• Clear communication
• Cross-functional collaboration
• Python and C++ for robotics
• Robotics systems design and deployment
• Fault detection and robustness engineering

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