Software Engineer, Simulation

Overview

Join Wayve’s Core Simulation team to build and evolve the simulation system that evaluates and improves autonomous driving. You will work on high-scale open-loop evaluation and integrate driving-stack components in a realistic, reproducible environment. The role focuses on delivering production-quality, scalable simulation tools while collaborating with multiple engineering teams. You will help improve testing, observability, and performance to enable reliable large-scale evaluation and iteration.

Pay / Benefits

• hybrid working model
• relocation support and visa sponsorship
• learning and development budgets
• health insurance
• dental coverage
• pension/retirement benefits

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain production-quality simulation components in C++ and Python
• Integrate driving-stack components and simulated robot systems into the shared environment
• Support various simulation configurations with emphasis on high-scale open-loop evaluation
• Investigate discrepancies between on-road and simulated execution across data and inference paths
• Improve automated testing, observability, reproducibility, and developer tooling
• Profile simulator workloads and drive performance and scalability improvements
• Collaborate with Simulation, Robotics, Autonomy, Evaluation, Platform and Data teams to resolve integration issues
• Contribute to technical designs and improve maintainability of the codebase

Key requirements

• Professional experience delivering production software in a collaborative environment
• Strong C++ and Python skills with depth in at least one and ability to work in both
• Experience in simulation, robotics, autonomous or multi-component systems
• Understanding of software and data-oriented design for maintainability and extensibility
• Experience debugging complex systems, data flows, timing and failure modes
• Awareness of performance issues and pragmatic design trade-offs
• Ability to deliver scoped features independently and communicate progress
• Experience using GenAI development tools to boost productivity with careful validation
• Strong communication and collaboration skills

• strong collaboration
• effective communication
• problem-solving under complexity
• C++
• Python
• simulation systems

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