Staff Robotics Engineer

Before the detail, here's the challenge you'd help us solve.

We build the embodied intelligence that moves real vehicles safely, and the ecosystem a billion machines will run on in the future. Very few people in AI can say this. Every role here, whatever the team, plugs into that.

Here’s what this particular role covers.

The role

Wayve is seeking a Robotics Software Engineer for our Online Calibration team to support scaling across our autonomous vehicle fleet. You will turn calibration and estimation methods into reliable, observable and resource-efficient components of the on-vehicle runtime, operating continuously on constrained, hardware-accelerated platforms. Working across calibration, state estimation, robot software, hardware acceleration and vehicle-platform teams, you will shape the architecture and roadmap for a foundational capability that directly affects vehicle performance, resilience and safety.

Key responsibilities:

• Extend the capabilities of the existing online calibration node, delivering robust production software within the architecture and technical direction set by the team.

• Adapt and integrate suitable calibration and estimation algorithms for continuous or on-demand onboard execution.

• Develop reliable handling of asynchronous sensor data, accelerator-produced features and noisy, time-varying calibration parameters.

• Strengthen validation, gating, persistence and interfaces between the calibration node, onboard state, runtime consumers, logging and fleet-facing systems.

• Profile and optimise critical paths for constrained compute, memory, storage and latency budgets without compromising correctness or debuggability.

• Build comprehensive simulation, replay, bench and on-vehicle tests, and improve metrics, diagnostics and fleet-level observability across nominal and failure scenarios.

About you

In order to set you up for success as a Robotics Engineer at Wayve, we’re looking for the following skills and experience.

Essential

• Strong practical expertise in sensor calibration, state estimation or a closely related robotics domain, including calibration of cameras, LiDAR, IMUs, vehicle parameters or multi-sensor systems.

• Strong understanding of filtering and estimation methods, such as Kalman-family filters, Bayesian estimation, smoothing, robust estimation or factor-graph optimisation.

• Strong modern C++ software-engineering skills and proficiency in Python for prototyping, analysis and test tooling.

• Experience productionising algorithm-heavy robotics software for vehicles, robots, drones, aerospace systems or comparable edge platforms, including clear lifecycle, failure-handling and recovery behaviour.

• Experience with asynchronous, high-throughput sensor data and hardware-accelerated pipelines, with the ability to optimise constrained compute and memory systems without losing correctness or debuggability.

• Strong software architecture, API design, testing, debugging and performance-profiling skills, with evidence of end-to-end ownership and effective cross-functional collaboration.

Desirable

• Experience in visual odometry, SLAM, localisation, sensor fusion, ego-motion estimation or geometric computer vision.

• Experience with GPU, DSP, NPU or other hardware-accelerated robotics workloads, including zero-copy or shared-memory data paths and optimisation for production runtime constraints.

• Experience developing and operating production software in a scaled robotics or autonomous-systems company, ideally involving embedded Linux, edge-state management, rollback, automotive safety or fault-injection testing.

This is a full-time role based in our office in either in London/UK or Sunnyvale/US. 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.

A quick, honest note before you apply.

Wayve is not a mature, fully-structured place with the playbook already written. Much of how we work is still being written, and if you join, you’ll help write it. That suits people who want real ownership more than people who need a settled structure from day one.

If that sounds like the kind of problem you want to spend your time on, we’d really like to hear from you.