Controls Engineer

Overview

In this role you will shape the vehicle trajectory and motion control that translate Wayve’s AI Driver outputs into safe, smooth vehicle motion across ADAS and autonomous platforms. You will work with a focused team to advance principled control approaches, real-time systems, and robust evaluation. This is an opportunity to impact the AV industry by delivering production-quality control software and validated performance. You join a fast-paced, collaborative environment that values curiosity, rigor, and cross-functional impact.

Pay / Benefits

• hybrid working policy
• office in London
• inclusive interview experience

Responsibilities

• Develop, integrate, tune, and validate control, trajectory-generation, and action-processing algorithms across vehicle platforms and challenging driving conditions
• Maintain and evolve the controls software architecture linking AI Driver outputs to real-time actuation
• Implement and maintain production-quality, latency-sensitive control software in C++ for prototype to production vehicles
• Use simulation, closed-loop evaluation, and on-road testing to characterize controller behavior and validate improvements
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define controller interfaces and enable new vehicle platforms and product features

Key requirements

• Strong fundamentals in control theory with depth in optimization, model-predictive control, numerical methods, or dynamical systems
• Practical experience developing, tuning and validating control or motion systems on real-world physical systems
• Strong software engineering skills with production-quality C++
• Experience with latency-sensitive or real-time software
• Ability to reason about and debug system-level behavior in complex robotic systems across software and hardware

• collaboration
• problem-solving
• cross-functional communication
• control theory
• optimization / model-predictive control / numerical methods / dynamical systems
• production-quality C++

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