Staff Robotics Engineer, AV Core

London, United Kingdom💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-16 → 2026-09-25

Core

Lead technical direction and delivery of fault detection and fallback systems for driverless operation, ensuring robustness under failure.

Role type

Staff Robotics Engineer (AV Core)

Builds

Foundational capabilities for assisted and automated driving, including collision avoidance and model understanding.

Domain

Autonomous driving / Robotics

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

Robotics system development, Python, C++, Technical strategy setting, Cross-functional collaboration, Architecture review, Mentoring, Safety-relevant trade-off analysis

Preferred skills

Real-world fleet deployment at scale, Debugging tooling development, Cloud infrastructure monitoring, Embedded/real-time systems knowledge, Machine learning and inference optimization

Technologies

Python, C++

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About Wayve

🚀 Wayve is building the leading AI platform for autonomous driving. We are pioneering an end to end AI approach that enables vehicles to learn directly from real world experience, developing the ability to adapt, generalise and improve at scale. Instead of relying on hand coded rules or pre mapped environments, our AI Driver learns to drive by understanding the world around it. The result is technology that navigates complex urban environments with intelligence, precision and natural flow, unlocking meaningful advances in both safety and efficiency. We believe autonomy represents a once in a