Security Operations Engineer at Wayve

At Wayve we're committed to creating a diverse, fair and respectful culture that is inclusive of everyone based on their unique skills and perspectives, and regardless of sex, race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding) or any other basis as protected by applicable law. About us Founded in 2017, Wayve is the leading developer of Embodied AI technology. Our advanced AI software and foundation models enable vehicles to perceive, understand, and navigate any complex environment, enhancing the usability and safety of automated driving systems. Our vision is to create autonomy that propels the world forward. Our intelligent, mapless, and hardware-agnostic AI products are designed for automakers, accelerating the transition from assisted to automated driving. In our fast-paced environment big problems ignite us—we embrace uncertainty, leaning into complex challenges to unlock groundbreaking solutions. We aim high and stay humble in our pursuit of excellence, constantly learning and evolving as we pave the way for a smarter, safer future. At Wayve, your contributions matter. We value diversity, embrace new perspectives, and foster an inclusive work environment; we back each other to deliver impact. Make Wayve the experience that defines your career! The role As a Security Engineer within Wayve’s Security Operations function, you will focus on building and scaling monitoring and detection capabilities across our vehicle fleets, including both: • R&D vehicle fleet (development and testing vehicles) • Robotaxi fleet (customer-facing vehicles) These environments represent distributed, safety-critical, and non-traditional attack surfaces, requiring bespoke approaches to telemetry, detection, and response. Working under the SecOps Engineering Lead, your primary focus will be vehicle-centric detection engineering and telemetry expansion, ensuring we have meaningful visibility into vehicle systems, edge compute, and fleet operations. You will also contribute secondarily to monitoring, detection, and incident response across Wayve’s broader IT and cloud estate, helping maintain a cohesive security operations capability across all environments. This is a hands-on engineering role, ideal for someone who enjoys solving hard visibility problems in complex, real-world systems. Key responsibilities: • Monitoring & Detection • Build and tune detections across R&D and robotaxi fleets • Onboard and utilise vehicle telemetry (e.g. onboard systems, edge compute, fleet pipelines) • Contribute to monitoring and detection across cloud and IT environments • Improve detection coverage, playbooks, and automation • Telemetry & Instrumentation • Define and improve security logging with autonomy, robotics, and platform teams • Ensure vehicle telemetry is structured and usable for detection • Threat Detection & Investigation • Investigate alerts and anomalies across fleet and supporting systems • Perform triage, root cause analysis, and threat hunting • Incident Response • Support response activities across vehicle fleets and backend systems • Assist with evidence collection and post-incident reviews About you In order to set you up for success as Security Operations Engineer at Wayve, we’re looking for the following skills and experience. Essential • Hands-on experience in security monitoring, detection engineering, or SOC environments • Experience working with log data, SIEMs, or observability platforms • Strong understanding of: • Detection engineering and alert tuning • Attacker behaviour (e.g. MITRE ATT&CK) • Experience working with distributed or non-traditional environments, such as: IoT, OT, embedded systems, or edge compute • Ability to write queries, detections, or scripts (e.g. Python, SQL, KQL, etc.) • Comfortable working cross-functionally with engineering teams to improve telemetry • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills Desirable • Experience with: • Automotive, robotics, or fleet-based systems • OT/ICS or IoT security monitoring • Cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure) • Familiarity with: • Telemetry pipelines, streaming data, or large-scale logging systems • Experience adapting detection techniques to novel or safety-critical environments • Relevant certifications (e.g. GCIA, GCIH, GCED, GICSP etc.) This is a full-time role based in our offices in London or Sunnyvale. At Wayve we want the best of all worlds so we operate a hybrid working policy that combines time together in our offices and workshops to fuel innovation, culture, relationships and learning, and time spent working from home. We operate core working hours so you can determine the schedule that works best for you and your team. #LI-KM1 Wayve is committed to creating an inclusive interview experience. If you require any accommodations or adjustments to participate fully in our interview process, please let us know We understand that everyone has a unique set of skills and experiences and that not everyone will meet all of the requirements listed above. If you’re passionate about self-driving cars and think you have what it takes to make a positive impact on the world, we encourage you to apply. For more information visit Careers at Wayve. To learn more about what drives us, visit Values at Wayve DISCLAIMER: We will not ask about marriage or pregnancy, care responsibilities or disabilities in any of our job adverts or interviews. However, we do look to capture information about care responsibilities, and disabilities among other diversity information as part of an optional DEI Monitoring form to help us identify areas of improvement in our hiring process and ensure that the process is inclusive and non-discriminatory.