---
title: 'Software Engineer - Runtime Platform, Robot Software at Wayve'
canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/software-engineer-runtime-platform-robot-software-wayve-sunnyvale-mf65mrmdsfxc'
type: 'job'
last_seen: '2026-09-09'
---

# Software Engineer - Runtime Platform, Robot Software at Wayve

- **Company:** Wayve
- **Location:** Sunnyvale, CA
- **Posted:** 2026-09-08
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://wayve.firststage.co/jobs?gh_jid=8730007002

## Job description

## About us

Founded in 2017, Wayve is the leading developer of Embodied AI technology.  Our advanced AI software and foundation models enable vehicles to perceive, understand, and navigate any complex environment, enhancing the usability and safety of automated driving systems.

Our vision is to create autonomy that propels the world forward.  Our intelligent, mapless, and hardware-agnostic AI products are designed for automakers, accelerating the transition from assisted to automated driving.

In our fast-paced environment big problems ignite us—we embrace uncertainty, leaning into complex challenges to unlock groundbreaking solutions. We aim high and stay humble in our pursuit of excellence, constantly learning and evolving as we pave the way for a smarter, safer future.

At Wayve, your contributions matter.  We value diversity, embrace new perspectives, and foster an inclusive work environment; we back each other to deliver impact.

Make Wayve the experience that defines your career!

## The role

The Robot Software team is responsible for the software that runs on our internal fleet of vehicles to enable autonomous driving and collect data for training new driving models. You will join a motivated and talented team of engineers to deliver a reliable, stable and flexible software stack to support on-road experimentation by our model developers and scientists. Your work will enable these teams to iterate quickly and gather the data they need to improve our autonomous driving capabilities and support new product features, which is critical to the success of Wayve’s mission.

The Runtime Platform team equips all Wayve teams with the observability, profiling tools, and infrastructure needed to understand and optimise software performance across our development fleet. We work closely with teams to investigate issues, reduce bottlenecks, and promote best practices. Our work enhances core onboard components to ensure efficient use of compute and a solid foundation for running model experiments at scale. We also provide the tooling and infrastructure needed to quickly detect, diagnose, and address performance regressions, helping teams move faster with greater confidence.

Key responsibilities:

- Investigate latency and performance bottlenecks across the entire software stack
- Instrument code with profiling tools and metrics to collect performance data and identify optimization opportunities
- Integrate and evaluate new profiling and instrumentation tools to benchmark system performance and establish baselines
- Collaborate with multiple teams to understand their performance pain points and prioritize optimization efforts based on impact
- Optimize critical code paths and algorithms to improve runtime efficiency, reduce latency, and enhance overall system performance

## About you

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

Essential

- Proficiency with performance profiling tools and techniques for identifying and resolving system bottlenecks
- Proven track record of methodical experiment evaluation
- Strong technical background on OS scheduling, computer architecture (memory hierarchy, CPU caches, context switches, …), and thread synchronisation

Desirable

- Familiarity with nvidia performance tools such as NV NSight, NV Lumos and tegrastat
- Familiarity with observability tools such as Grafana (logs, metrics, traces), Databricks, Datadog
- Familiarity with QNX and Momentics is a plus

This role is a full-time role based in Sunnyvale, CA (hybrid) and the reasonably estimated salary for this role ranges from $176,500 to $220,800, plus a competitive equity package. Actual compensation is based on the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience. 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.

For more information visit [Careers at Wayve.](https://wayve.ai/careers/)

To learn more about what drives us, visit [Values at Wayve](https://wayve.ai/careers/)

For US candidates only, please visit [E-Verify Notice](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1N46n3iN0AG8EPEO-hCanyyv7hzz8KgT_/view?usp=sharing) and [Participation and Right to Work](https://www.ussc.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/employment/RightToWork.pdf)

DISCLAIMER: We will not ask about marriage or pregnancy, care responsibilities or disabilities in any of our job adverts or interviews. However, we do look to capture information about care responsibilities, and disabilities among other diversity information as part of an optional DEI Monitoring form to help us identify areas of improvement in our hiring process and ensure that the process is inclusive and non-discriminatory.

## About Wayve

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Wayve is building a general-purpose, embodied AI driving intelligence that learns from data and scales across vehicles, geographies, and applications.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series C)
- **Headquarters**: London, United Kingdom
- **Founded**: 2017
- **Founders**: Alex Kendall (Co-founder & CEO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Autonomous Vehicle Technology / Embodied AI
- **Target customers**: B2B — Automakers (OEMs), logistics partners, and mobility networks (e.g., Uber)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: To reimagine autonomous mobility with embodied intelligence, aiming to make mobility safer, smarter, and more accessible for everyone.

## Products & Services
- **[Wayve AI Driver]**: A mapless, vehicle-agnostic, end-to-end AI software platform that runs entirely on onboard vehicle compute and native sensors. It delivers all levels of autonomy, from hands-off and eyes-off driving to robotaxis. The system is designed to be sensor and hardware-agnostic, scalable to new roads and cities without HD maps, and learns to drive using data.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of **$2.8B** across 4 rounds (as of May 2026). Estimated annual revenue of **$1.6B** (LinkedIn estimate, likely based on total funding and growth trajectory, not public filings).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: SoftBank Group (lead, Series C), NVIDIA, Microsoft, Uber. Partners include Ocado Group, Asda, DPD, and world-class automakers.
- **Growth Signals**: 
    - Raised a $1.05B Series C in May 2024.
    - Uber invested to put future Wayve-powered vehicles on the Uber network globally.
    - First and only AV company to test a single global AI Driver model across **500+ cities** in Europe, North America, and Japan.
    - Headcount grew **84.0% YoY** to approximately 718 employees.
    - Operates in 23 countries.
    - Opened a second office in Mountain View, California.
    - Introduced breakthrough AI models GAIA-1 and LINGO-1 for generative AI in driving.

## Competitive Advantages
- **End-to-end AI approach**: Unlike many competitors using rule-based or modular approaches, Wayve uses a single, deep learning-based model that learns to drive from data.
- **Mapless technology**: Does not require expensive, high-definition (HD) maps, allowing rapid scaling to new cities and roads.
- **Vehicle-agnostic**: Software can be integrated into any vehicle type (cars, delivery vans, etc.) with any sensor suite, making it a platform for multiple OEMs.
- **Data-driven safety**: The AI learns from data and is designed to handle unexpected and unseen situations, with a focus on "deep world understanding."
- **Strong strategic partnerships**: Backed by tech giants (NVIDIA, Microsoft) and a mobility leader (Uber), providing both capital and go-to-market channels.

## Strategic Focus
- **Deploying Embodied AI at scale**: Moving from R&D to commercial products for automakers and logistics partners.
- **Global expansion**: Testing and deploying the AI Driver across diverse geographies (Europe, North America, Japan) to build a robust, generalizable driving intelligence.
- **Productizing for OEMs**: Developing the first Embodied AI product for production vehicles, led by President Erez Dagan (ex-Mobileye).
- **Last-mile delivery**: Commercial partnerships with Ocado Group, Asda, and DPD to trial AV technology on urban delivery routes.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-driven**: Work on one of the hardest technological problems of our time — building safe, scalable autonomous mobility.
- **Innovative environment**: Pioneering end-to-end deep learning and embodied AI, with opportunities to work on groundbreaking research and products (GAIA-1, LINGO-1).
- **Culture**: Values include "Aim high. Stay humble," "Back each other to deliver impact," and "Humanity is core." Emphasis on diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB).
- **Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)**: Active communities including Black Excellence Network, Women Who Code, Neurodivergents at Wayve, and Wayve Veterans Network.
- **Benefits**: Competitive compensation (cash + equity), private healthcare, mental health resources (Spill), learning & development budgets, paid time off, and social clubs.
- **Work environment**: Hybrid/office setup with HQ in London and offices in Mountain View, CA, and Israel.
- **Growth opportunities**: Rapidly scaling company (84% headcount growth YoY) with 113 active job postings, offering significant career development.

## Sources
1. [wayve.ai](https://wayve.ai/)
2. [wayve.ai/careers](https://wayve.ai/careers/)
3. [wayve.ai/company](https://wayve.ai/company/)
4. [wayve.ai/company/leadership-team](https://wayve.ai/company/leadership-team/)
5. [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/wayve-technologies)

## Other roles at Wayve

- [Senior Software Engineer, Data & Orchestration](https://feeny.ai/job/senior-software-engineer-data-orchestration-wayve-london-xzcw9t13pxsm) — London, United Kingdom
- [Senior Software Engineer - OS, Robot Software](https://feeny.ai/job/senior-software-engineer-os-robot-software-wayve-sunnyvale-k4jjc7de8a7b) — Sunnyvale, CA
- [Technical Lead Manager, Synthetic Data](https://feeny.ai/job/technical-lead-manager-synthetic-data-wayve-london-sf9kmbwyhn88) — London, United Kingdom
- [Model Release Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/model-release-engineer-wayve-london-m0amtfx1bh2c) — London, United Kingdom
- [Engineering Manager, SRE – AV Fleet, Japan](https://feeny.ai/job/engineering-manager-sre-av-fleet-japan-wayve-japan-0k1wf1y4xv1a) — Japan
- [Lead Technical Program Manager, Quality & Compliance](https://feeny.ai/job/lead-technical-program-manager-quality-compliance-wayve-london-tpz844vsbfm5) — London, United Kingdom
- [Lead Technical Program Manager, AI Platform](https://feeny.ai/job/lead-technical-program-manager-ai-platform-wayve-london-jn1a2agqrv3m) — London, United Kingdom
- [Director, Technical Program Management — Driver Out](https://feeny.ai/job/director-technical-program-management-driver-out-wayve-sunnyvale-r0h7tkhv6ytr) — Sunnyvale, CA
- [Staff Robotics Engineer, Localisation](https://feeny.ai/job/staff-robotics-engineer-localisation-wayve-london-kd1vtvyczvs9) — London, United Kingdom
- [Forensics Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/forensics-engineer-wayve-sunnyvale-cjkgda9zejfb) — Sunnyvale, CA