Robotics Jobs

• London
• Hybrid
• Permanent

Builds virtual vehicle models using physics-based and data-driven techniques, validating them against on-road data and converting them into efficient software components. Runs track and partner experiments to improve model accuracy, and integrates models into simulation, hardware-in-the-loop and correlation pipelines across robotics, simulation and product teams.

Dymola · CarSim · CarMaker

• 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
• Permanent

Builds ground-truth datasets and computer vision classifiers that describe complex driving scenes across Wayve's data corpus, tackling road geometry, spatial relationships, road users and driving behaviour. Works with internal customers to define attributes and acceptance criteria, designs annotation tasks, and integrates classifiers with enrichment infrastructure for corpus analysis and scenario mining.

PyTorch · SQL · World Foundation Model

• London
• Hybrid
• Mid-level
• Permanent

Builds robust, reusable test automation across component, integration and system levels, spanning hardware and embedded software boundaries. Owns design and delivery of automated verification for an embedded software area, creating open-loop and closed-loop HIL replay, reliability and fault-injection tests, and optimising Buildkite CI/CD workflows while leading root-cause investigations with cross-functional teams.

dSPACE · Vector · Xylon +7

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

Lead the Platform Integration team within Robot Software, owning early vehicle software integration, drive-by-wire and vehicle-facing drivers. Manage engineers, hiring, roadmap and delivery while guiding architecture for reusable interfaces across vehicle variants and OEM programmes, balancing programme needs with reliability and tooling investments.

CAN · Automotive Ethernet

• London
• Hybrid
• Senior
• Permanent

Post-train and scale GAIA-family large video diffusion world models to generate multimodal synthetic driving data, running generation pipelines across tens of thousands of segments and optimising GPU inference. Sits between ML research and engineering, landing synthetic data into the same training stack as real driving data and measuring its impact on driving-model performance.

GAIA · GPU · KV Cache

• 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

Owns the end-to-end release cycle for AI driving models, coordinating ML engineering, evaluation, data science, platform, testing and product teams. Defines release gates and promotion criteria from training through validation to fleet deployment, drives regression investigations and rollback decisions, and builds tooling and KPIs to remove bottlenecks in a non-deterministic ML environment.

GitHub · Buildkite · CLI

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

Lead a London-based team building the on-vehicle experiment platform that lets researchers deploy driving models to vehicles, run experiments and collect training data. Own people, roadmap and OEM partnerships while staying hands-on with embedded Linux, C++/Python and over-the-air deployment across vehicle fleets.

ROS 2 · DDS · QNX +4

• London
• Hybrid
• Senior
• Permanent

Owns embedded software that connects an autonomous driving AI to vehicle platforms, building integration and adaptation layers across hardware. Works on inference integration, vehicle data, navigation, localisation and motion control interfaces, taking features from design through HIL and vehicle testing. Requires strong modern C++ and Linux/QNX experience, ideally on Nvidia and Qualcomm platforms.

Nvidia · Qualcomm · Linux +3

• London
• Hybrid
• Lead
• Permanent

Lead the technical architecture integrating Wayve's autonomous driving software with automotive OEM and Tier 1 vehicle platforms, spanning sensors, middleware, ECU constraints, timing, diagnostics and safety. Define interface contracts, ownership boundaries and requirements processes, and represent Wayve in partner technical discussions while mentoring architects across teams.

CAN · FlexRay · Automotive Ethernet +2

• London
• Hybrid
• Lead
• Permanent

Lead the technical direction for an offline 3D reconstruction system that turns raw vehicle sensor data into quality-assessed 3D ground-truth geometry and ego motion. The role spans SLAM, lidar point-cloud registration, state estimation and sensor fusion, with responsibility for architecture, roadmaps, prototypes and cross-functional alignment across perception, calibration and validation teams.

ROS · PCL · OpenCV +3

• London
• Hybrid
• Lead · manages people
• Permanent

Lead a small team iterating on Wayve's end-to-end L2 driving model, balancing hands-on Python coding and experiments with directing priorities. You diagnose on-road issues, root-cause them, and drive fixes through data recipes, model architecture and evaluation, working across teams on model and vehicle interface problems.

Python

• London
• Hybrid
• Senior
• Permanent

Lead the technical architecture and roadmap for onboard localisation, designing and productionising state-estimation systems that fuse GNSS, IMU and wheel odometry for accurate vehicle pose estimates. The role spans algorithm design, prototyping, validation and deployment on real-time vehicle platforms, with hands-on technical leadership and mentorship across robotics, calibration, controls and sensor teams.

GTSAM · Ceres · g2o +7

• 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