Senior Software Engineer - Platform Integration, Robot Software

The role

As a Software Engineer on the Platform Integration Team, you will play a key role in the hands-on software bring-up of new vehicle programs, helping turn them into stable, reliable robot systems.

Alongside integration activities, you’ll design and deliver improvements to vehicle-facing software components and frameworks that make future integrations faster, more predictable, and less bespoke.

This is a highly technical engineering role within our Robot Software group, where your work directly enables safe, scalable deployment across multiple vehicle programs

• Contribute to the software bring-up of new vehicle programs, supporting bench, HIL, and on-vehicle integration activities, including hands-on work at international test locations.
• Design, develop, and maintain vehicle-facing software components and shared frameworks that improve reliability, abstraction, and reuse across vehicle programs.
• Improve the stability of early-stage vehicles by diagnosing integration issues, implementing fixes where appropriate, and driving issues through to resolution with relevant teams.
• Identify and deliver architectural improvements that reduce bespoke changes and make future vehicle integrations faster and more predictable.
• Build and maintain tooling, diagnostics, and metrics to monitor robot software performance and enable continuous reliability improvements.
• Produce clear documentation and runbooks to support knowledge transfer and long-term maintainability.
• Collaborate closely with hardware, safety, controls, calibration, and reliability teams to ensure smooth and scalable vehicle software integration.

About you

In order to set you up for success as a Software Engineer on the Platform Integration Team at Wayve, we’re looking for the following skills and experience:

• Strong software development experience in C++, Python, and/or Rust, with a track record of delivering production-quality systems.