Latest Autonomous Vehicle Engineer Jobs

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Software Engineer

Contributes across the full development lifecycle, from concept and algorithm design to system integration, testing and troubleshooting of safety-critical navigation and autonomy software in C++. Works with a multidisciplinary team on real-time embedded systems, hardware/software-in-the-loop testing and flight test activities, producing design documentation and test reports.

Flarebright Bicester £39,000 – £49,000 pa

On-site Permanent Clearance Required

Spotlight

Senior Robotics Software Engineer

Lead the design and deployment of autonomous robotic systems, owning software architecture across perception, planning and control. Work spans prototyping, simulation and field testing, integrating with hardware teams while mentoring engineers and shaping technical roadmaps. Requires depth in C++, ROS2, SLAM and real-time systems.

Autodiscovery Wantage

On-site Permanent

Maintenance Engineer (Electrical / AGV Training Programme)

Electrically biased maintenance role supporting a fleet of automated guided vehicles and automated material handling systems in a modern manufacturing site. Day to day involves fault-finding on electrical, controls and PLC-driven equipment, planned preventative maintenance and reactive breakdown support, with structured training to become a site AGV subject matter expert.

Shorterm Group Wolverhampton £62,000 – £65,000 pa

On-site Temporary

Controls Engineer

Develops, tunes and validates trajectory-generation and motion-control algorithms that translate the AI Driver's outputs into safe, smooth vehicle motion across ADAS and AV platforms. Writes latency-sensitive, production-quality C++ control software and uses simulation, closed-loop evaluation and on-road testing to characterise controller behaviour and diagnose issues.

Wayve London

Hybrid Permanent

Software Engineer, Data Enrichment

Build and operate backend services, APIs and data-processing workflows for a platform that deploys, runs and evaluates ML models over petabytes of driving data on large GPU fleets. Work spans model-execution workflows, versioned outputs, annotation and dataset-catalogue features, plus reliability, scheduling and observability improvements, alongside model engineering and infrastructure teams.

Wayve London

Hybrid Permanent

Principal Autonomy Systems Engineer

Lead the system architecture and technical roadmap for an autonomy stack spanning perception, localisation, planning, motion control and vehicle integration. Line manage 4-6 engineers, coordinate 3-4 subsystem suppliers, and drive C++/ROS2 delivery, verification and productionisation for agricultural vehicle technology.

Jonathan Lee Recruitment Newport £70,000 – £90,000 pa

On-site Permanent

Senior Systems Engineer

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.

Humanoid London

On-site Permanent

Software Intern - Embedded Systems 2027

Internship on NVIDIA's embedded computing team, working with Tegra SoC, DGX Spark and the Jetson Embedded Platform. The role involves building Linux kernel and user-space software, advancing the Jetson Developer Kit and developer experience, and accelerating deep learning and neural network technologies for autonomous vehicles, robotics and analytics alongside hardware and software engineers.

NVIDIA Bristol

Internship

Robotics Applied Research Lead

Leads Humanoid's AI research and engineering function as a player-coach, spending at least half of the first year on direct technical work: designing Transformer-based models and experiments, reviewing code, inspecting data, debugging training, and examining robot rollouts. Owns the research roadmap, data strategy, and offline/real-world evaluation systems, and builds a small team of researchers and engineers.

Humanoid London

On-site Permanent

Software Engineer - Autonomous Systems

Design and develop safety-critical embedded software for next-generation autonomous systems, working within a specialist team and contributing to software architecture. The role sits in an evolving, regulated engineering space and requires strong C/C++ embedded experience plus familiarity with real-time systems. Office attendance is required three days per week.

Spectrum IT Recruitment Bampton £40,000 – £60,000 pa

Hybrid

Robotics Technical Specialist

Customer-facing role supporting autonomous cleaning robots across the UK and Nordics, combining remote and on-site troubleshooting, software updates and mechanical/electrical adjustments with cloud fleet management and IoT telemetry. Also involves deploying and configuring machines, training end-users and internal teams, running demos and field trials, and feeding deployment insights into marketing and sales.

Cameo Consultancy (Recruitment) Banbury

Permanent

Stores Operative

Hands-on stores role covering internal logistics from goods in to dispatch: receiving and distributing hardware and mechanical components, running goods-inward quality checks, validating kitting lists and preparing build kits for production assembly, plus regular stock takes. Based at the Wallingford robot manufacturing facility, supporting the production value stream as the company scales.

Dexory Wallingford

On-site Permanent

Automation Engineer (Control Systems)

Designs PLC/DCS and SCADA software for bespoke integrated control systems, coding independently on Siemens and Rockwell platforms. Configures communication networks, performs factory and site testing, and commissions systems at customer sites while maintaining documentation. The role is fully autonomous and highly technical, with progression routes into senior management.

Ernest Gordon Recruitment Glasgow £50,000 – £60,000 pa

Permanent

Senior Computer Vision Engineer

Design and develop advanced computer vision algorithms for object detection, tracking, and 6DoF pose estimation within autonomous systems. Lead algorithm validation and deployment across embedded and flight software, contributing to subsystem architecture and sensor integration. Provide technical mentorship and collaborate with cross-functional teams on system-level engineering, testing, and safety-critical solutions.

Holt Executive Oxfordshire £60,000 – £94,000 pa

Robotics Software Engineer

Develops and tests onboard software for Autonomous Mobile Robots and the fleet management system, including vision processing, localisation and multi-robot path planning. The role combines ROS 2 and C++/Python development with hardware interfacing over CANopen, serial and Ethernet, plus on-site support for live operations at Nuneaton.

Unipart Cambridge £58,000 pa

Permanent

Robotics Software Engineer - C

Develops and enhances software for autonomous agricultural harvesting robots, improving usability, speed, accuracy and calibration. Analyses logs, user feedback and experimental data to diagnose issues and fix complex bugs, testing code hands-on on physical machines. Works closely with Product and Engineering teams to deliver robust, production-ready features.

Redline Group Royston £50,000 – £60,000 pa