Senior Software Engineer — Release Infrastructure & Data 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 We are at a pivotal moment in our engineering journey. As we prepare to deploy our autonomous vehicle technology to our first production customer, establishing a rock-solid, auditable, and scalable release lifecycle is our top priority. We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to partner closely with the Tech Lead Manager (TLM) to architect our Release and Test Infrastructure. While the TLM guides the team's overall execution, roadmap, and people management, you will act as a senior technical pillar, taking complete ownership of designing and leading complex infrastructure domains. Our testing ecosystem is inherently multi-modal. You will design the systems that track our software lifecycles, ingest massive amounts of test telemetry across diverse environments—Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL), Software-in-the-Loop (SIL), Vehicle-in-the-Loop (VIL), and Model-in-the-Loop (MIL)—and make it queryable to drive critical release decisions. What You Will Do • Act as a key senior Individual Contributor (IC), owning the architecture for data pipelines and release traceability, and collaborate with the TLM to shape the long-term technical roadmap. • Design high-volume data pipelines that ingest results from diverse sources with equal fidelity, ensuring unified tracking across physical rigs and cloud simulations. • Design systems that handle both Direct Storage for critical hardware logs and Federated Strategies (external referencing) for massive cloud simulation datasets. • Build pipeline components and backend services in Python, writing clean, maintainable, well-tested code. • Integrate your data architectures with our cloud infrastructure (partnering with our dedicated infra team) and our existing CI/CD execution pipelines (Buildkite and GitHub Actions). • Implement operational tooling to support pipeline health, and set up the modeling required to build clear dashboards for release readiness and compliance tracking. • Guide and upskill a team of strong Python automation and test engineers, teaching them how to interact with modern data pipelines and cloud services. What We Are Looking For • 5+ years of experience designing and building backend systems, data pipelines, or internal developer platforms at scale. • Experience designing unified data models or manifest contracts that abstract away underlying execution environments, ensuring traceability across highly diverse hardware and software platforms. • A track record of writing high-quality, production-grade code (readable, tested, well-documented, and maintainable). • Experience designing immutable, highly traceable systems where auditability is a core feature, not an afterthought. • Deep understanding of modern cloud concepts (storage, compute orchestration, IAM, networking) and how to design cost-effective data flows. • Experience building or contributing to test automation frameworks and CI-quality practices (repeatable, scalable, measurable tests). • Strong familiarity with Linux (system tooling, networking basics, troubleshooting). • Excellent Communicator: You can explain complex architectural trade-offs to both software engineers and non-technical stakeholders, and partner effectively with engineering leadership. Desirable • Experience in the Autonomous Vehicle, Robotics, or hardware-tech industries. • Experience working directly with HIL (Hardware-in-the-Loop) or vehicle log ingestion. • Familiarity with automotive compliance standards (e.g., ISO 26262) or other highly regulated environments. • Experience with workflow orchestration tools (e.g., Flyte, Airflow, Dagster). • Familiarity with relational data modeling at scale (e.g., advanced PostgreSQL). This is a full-time, office-based role located in 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. 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.