Software Engineer, Simulation

The posting, as Wayve wrote it

Before the detail, here's the challenge you'd help us solve.

We build the embodied intelligence that moves real vehicles safely, and the ecosystem a billion machines will run on in the future. Very few people in AI can say this. Every role here, whatever the team, plugs into that.

Here’s what this particular role covers.

🛠️ About our Simulation Teams

Simulation is a mission-critical part of how we build Wayve's driving intelligence. It lets teams evaluate changes faster, investigate failures and build confidence in the driving stack before it reaches the road.

Wayve's end-to-end driving stack creates a distinctive simulation challenge. There are no intermediate stages where simulated signals can be injected, so simulation has to be end to end too: reproducing the behaviour of a learned driving system across sensor data, model inference, routing, control and vehicle dynamics. Our simulator needs to be realistic enough to give meaningful signal, reproducible enough for teams to trust the results, and descriptive enough to explain the differences between simulated and on-road behaviour.

You'll join the Core Simulation team. Our open-loop and closed-loop workflows share one codebase, with different components configured depending on the use case. You'll start with the team focused on high-scale open-loop evaluation, while contributing to shared components that also underpin GAIA-powered closed-loop simulation, where generative world models are integrated with the driving stack. Your role is to enable and productionise these capabilities, not primarily to train the models.

🧠 Your day-to-day

• Work hands-on in our shared, modern C++ and Python simulation codebase
• Implement scoped features and integrate driving-stack components, simulated robot systems and new vehicle-platform capabilities
• Support and test different simulation configurations, with an initial focus on high-scale open-loop evaluation
• Investigate differences between on-road and simulated execution, tracing issues across component interfaces, data flows, timing and configuration
• Improve automated testing, observability, reproducibility, reliability and developer tooling
• Profile simulator workloads and contribute performance and scalability improvements
• Collaborate with Simulation, Robotics, Autonomy, Evaluation, Platform and Data teams to clarify requirements and resolve integration issues

🧩 What you’ll be working on

• Developing and maintaining production-quality components in Wayve's simulation system using modern C++ and Python
• Integrating driving-stack components, simulated robot systems and new vehicle platforms into the shared simulation environment
• Making sure components interact correctly across the simulation workflows they support
• Finding the root cause of on-road vs. simulation differences across data, inference and simulated components
• Making simulation more reproducible, reliable and debuggable, and faster,

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📈 Meaningful equity, sharing in the ownership and long term success of Wayve
✈️ Relocation support and visa sponsorship where applicable
✅ Hybrid working, core hours and the chance to work hands on in vehicle workshops and labs
📚 Learning and development budgets with support for training, conferences and growth
🩺 Comprehensive benefits including health insurance, dental, enhanced maternity and paternity leave, retirement or pension where applicable, access to therapists, wellbeing partnerships, team socials and more

A quick, honest note before you apply.

Wayve is not a mature, fully-structured place with the playbook already written. Much of how we work is still being written, and if you join, you’ll help write it. That suits people who want real ownership more than people who need a settled structure from day one.

If that sounds like the kind of problem you want to spend your time on, we’d really like to hear from you.

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