Software Engineer – Map & Route

Overview

In this role you will build end-to-end geospatial services that power Wayve’s AI driver. You will work across infrastructure, data engineering, and product teams to turn road-network data into scalable data products. Your work enables robust route planning, map data prep for training and simulation, and global-scale data enrichment pipelines. You’ll own services from idea to production, collaborating with teams to leverage maps and navigation data at scale. This is a hands-on, impact-driven position at the core of our autonomous driving platform.

Pay / Benefits

• Salaries benchmarked against market
• Meaningful equity
• Relocation support and visa sponsorship
• Hybrid working with core hours
• Learning and development budgets
• Comprehensive benefits: health, dental, maternity/paternity leave, retirement, wellbeing partnerships

Responsibilities

• Write full-stack services in Python and TypeScript for geospatial capabilities
• Collaborate with internal teams to translate requirements into geospatial solutions
• Design and build PySpark/Databricks data pipelines to enrich fleet data with map data
• Create datasets and applications for route planning and map data prep for training/simulation
• Integrate navigation APIs from Mapbox, TomTom, and Google Maps
• Maintain and improve existing services, ensuring reliability
• Deploy and operate services on Azure and Kubernetes end-to-end

Key requirements

• Strong, hands-on Python engineer delivering production-grade code
• Experience with AI-assisted/AI engineering workflows
• Proficient in large-scale data pipelines using Spark or PySpark
• SQL querying and analysis of large datasets
• Cloud infrastructure and container orchestration knowledge (Azure, Kubernetes)
• Ability to own new services end-to-end
• Geospatial data processing experience (road-network, routing data) is advantageous
• Experience with Bazel/monorepos and workflow tools is desirable

• ownership and accountability
• collaboration across cross-functional teams
• curiosity and willingness to learn
• Python
• TypeScript
• PySpark

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