Robotics Jobs

• London
• Hybrid
• Senior
• Permanent

Lead functional safety activities for an end-to-end AI automated driving system, building Item Definitions, running HARA/FMEA/FTA analyses, and shaping safety concepts and architectures across vehicle platforms and third-party systems. Define verification and validation, including vehicle-level testing, and construct structured safety cases with claims, arguments and evidence for certification.

ISO 26262 · SOTIF

• London
• Hybrid
• Senior
• Permanent

Lead large-scale data enrichment and curation for the Core Model Safety team, mining hard and rare events and building workflows across pre/mid-training, reward modelling and self-supervised labelling. Design and train out-of-distribution detection mechanisms for robust driverless operation, working at the intersection of model engineering, infrastructure, compute and data.

PyTorch · CUDA

• London
• On-site
• Senior
• Permanent

Senior systems engineering role focused on the software and autonomy stack of a humanoid robot platform, spanning perception, localisation, navigation, AI, motion planning, controls and ROS 2. Involves translating product needs into requirements, architectures and interfaces, coordinating integration across teams, and defining verification and validation strategies for autonomous behaviours.

ROS 2 · C++ · Python +7

• London
• On-site
• Senior
• Permanent

Owns the electrical and electronics dimension of serviceability for a humanoid robot platform, driving design-for-serviceability across power distribution, batteries, harnesses, sensors and compute. Validates repair and rework procedures, defines diagnostic points and safe-isolation practices, and leads electrical input to S-FMEA as the interface between Services and R&D.

LiDAR · Battery Management Systems · Digital Shadow +2

• London
• On-site
• Entry level
• Permanent · Shift work

Teleoperate humanoid robots and follow structured procedures to capture high-quality multimodal datasets—video, motion trajectories and task logs—for training AI models. Work hands-on on-site with tools such as the Universal Manipulator Interface, with a large share of time spent annotating and labelling data to strict guidelines. Shift-based on a weekly rota with full training provided and no technical background required.

Universal Manipulator Interface · UMI

• London
• On-site
• Senior
• Permanent

Owns control quality measurement for a humanoid robot platform, turning qualitative concerns like smoothness and tracking error into reproducible, versioned metrics. Builds automated test harnesses and CI pipelines spanning simulation and hardware-in-the-loop, plus per-robot and fleet-level test suites and dashboards. A software engineering role working alongside control engineers, requiring Python, modern C++ and real robotics data experience.

ROS · ROS2 · Git +3

• London
• Hybrid
• Senior
• Permanent

Hands-on role bringing up new vehicle platforms on benches, HiL systems and vehicles, developing vehicle-facing software and shared frameworks in C++, Python or Rust. Involves diagnosing software/hardware integration issues across Linux, ROS2, sensors, CAN and Automotive Ethernet, plus building diagnostics and tooling for robot-software reliability.

ROS2 · NVIDIA DRIVE · Qualcomm Snapdragon Ride +4

• London
• Hybrid
• Lead
• Permanent

Owns end-to-end system architecture for the Wayve AI Driver across L0–L4, defining interface contracts, ECU and sensor requirements, and safety mechanisms. Leads technical alignment with OEMs, Tier 1s and partners, and supports integration, bring-up and system-level debugging on vehicles and HiL/ViL benches.

Linux · RTOS · HMI +3

• London
• Hybrid
• Senior
• Permanent

Builds and evolves the data pipeline and orchestration platform behind Wayve's autonomous driving data, revamping the existing Harness system and creating a new DAG-based workflow platform. Works on Kubernetes-deployed, distributed infrastructure handling hundreds of parallel pipeline steps, batch inference and evaluation workflows, closely with partner teams.

Airflow · Dagster · Flyte +7

• London
• Hybrid
• Senior
• Permanent

Develops next-generation generative world models and planners such as GAIA, using diffusion, transformer and hybrid architectures to simulate complex driving environments for training, testing and deployment. The role spans ML research, multi-modal modelling and real-world deployment, with a focus on inference efficiency, closed-loop agent interaction and sim-to-real evaluation.

PyTorch · GAIA

• London
• Hybrid
• Mid-level · manages people
• Permanent

Lead a newly dedicated Runtime Platform team building the application frameworks, middleware, IPC, performance and observability foundations that let Wayve's AI Driver run in real time onboard vehicles. The role is people-first, combining coaching, hiring and roadmap ownership with technical direction across latency, profiling, real-time scheduling and embedded Linux, partnering with vehicle software, hardware and OEM programme teams.

QNX · OpenTelemetry · Grafana +7