Staff Robotics Engineer

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 Engineering Teams

Wayve is seeking a Robotics Software Engineer to join our Online Calibration team and support scaling across our autonomous vehicle fleet.

You will turn calibration and estimation methods into reliable, observable, and resource-efficient components of the on-vehicle runtime. Working across calibration, state estimation, robot software, hardware acceleration, and vehicle-platform teams, you will help shape the architecture and roadmap for a foundational capability that directly affects vehicle performance, resilience, and safety.

🧠 Your day-to-day

You’ll develop robust production software for online calibration, operating continuously on constrained, hardware-accelerated platforms. You’ll work with asynchronous sensor data, accelerator-produced features, and noisy, time-varying calibration parameters, balancing correctness, debuggability, and runtime efficiency.

🧩 What you’ll be working on

• Extend the existing online calibration node, delivering robust production software within the team’s architecture and technical direction.
• Adapt and integrate calibration and estimation algorithms for continuous or on-demand onboard execution.
• Develop reliable handling for asynchronous sensor data, accelerator-produced features, and noisy, time-varying calibration parameters.
• Strengthen validation, gating, persistence, and interfaces between the calibration node, onboard state, runtime consumers, logging, and fleet-facing systems.
• Profile and optimise critical paths within compute, memory, storage, and latency constraints without compromising correctness or debuggability.
• Build comprehensive simulation, replay, bench, and on-vehicle tests, and improve metrics, diagnostics, and fleet-level observability across nominal and failure scenarios.

🙌 You should apply if

• You have 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.
• You have a strong understanding of filtering and estimation methods, including Kalman-family filters, Bayesian estimation, smoothing, robust estimation, or factor-graph optimisation.
• You have strong modern C++ software-engineering skills and proficiency in Python for prototyping, analysis, and test tooling.
• You have experience productionising algorithm-heavy robotics software for vehicles, robots, drones, aerospace systems, or comparable edge platforms, including clear lifecycle, failure-handling, and recovery behaviour.
• You have experience with asynchronous, high-throughput sensor

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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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