Staff Robotics Engineer

In order to set you up for success as a Robotics Engineer at Wayve, we’re looking for the following skills and experience.

Essential

Strong practical expertise in sensor calibration, state estimation or a closely related robotics domain, including calibration of cameras, LiDAR, IMUs, vehicle parameters or multi-sensor systems.

Strong understanding of filtering and estimation methods, such as Kalman-family filters, Bayesian estimation, smoothing, robust estimation or factor-graph optimisation.

Strong modern C++ software-engineering skills and proficiency in Python for prototyping, analysis and test tooling.

Experience productionising algorithm-heavy robotics software for vehicles, robots, drones, aerospace systems or comparable edge platforms, including clear lifecycle, failure-handling and recovery behaviour.

Experience with asynchronous, high-throughput sensor data and hardware-accelerated pipelines, with the ability to optimise constrained compute and memory systems without losing correctness or debuggability.

Strong software architecture, API design, testing, debugging and performance-profiling skills, with evidence of end-to-end ownership and effective cross-functional collaboration.

Desirable

Experience in visual odometry, SLAM, localisation, sensor fusion, ego-motion estimation or geometric computer vision.

Experience with GPU, DSP, NPU or other hardware-accelerated robotics workloads, including zero-copy or shared-memory data paths and optimisation for production runtime constraints.

Experience developing and operating production software in a scaled robotics or autonomous-systems company, ideally involving embedded Linux, edge-state management, rollback, automotive safety or fault-injection testing.

This is a full-time role based in our office in either in London/UK or Sunnyvale/US. At Wayve we want the best of all worlds so we operate a hybrid working policy that combines time together in our offices and workshops to fuel innovation, culture, relationships and learning, and time spent working from home.

Wayve is committed to creating an inclusive interview experience. If you require any accommodations or adjustments to participate fully in our interview process, please let us know.

We understand that everyone has a unique set of skills and experiences and that not everyone will meet all of the requirements listed above. If you’re passionate about self-driving cars and think you have what it takes to make a positive impact on the world, we encourage you to apply. At Wayve we're committed to creating a diverse, fair and respectful culture that is inclusive of everyone based on their unique skills and perspectives, and regardless of sex, race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding) or any other basis as protected by applicable law.

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