SWE Tech Lead - Embedded Testing

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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.

At Wayve, 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 the Engineer in Test Technical Lead on Wayve’s Onboard Software team, you will play a pivotal role in establishing the test infrastructure and practices necessary to ensure the robustness and reliability of our AI-driven autonomous vehicle systems.

Your leadership will be crucial in enabling software engineers to seamlessly integrate testing into their development workflows, automating hardware-in-the-loop (HiL) testing, and creating advanced frameworks for sensor emulation that facilitate full system testing.

By driving excellence in testing practices and mentoring junior engineers, you will directly contribute to the continuous improvement of Wayve’s software development life cycle.

• Test Infrastructure Development : Design and implement scalable and maintainable test infrastructure that empowers software engineers to efficiently create, run, and automate tests within their development and release processes
• Automation of Hardware-in-the-Loop (HiL) Testing : Lead the development and automation of HiL testing environments supporting a multitude of target platforms, ensuring that hardware components are accurately and consistently tested within our software ecosystem
• Sensor Emulation Frameworks : Create and maintain frameworks for sensor emulation that enable comprehensive system-level testing, ensuring the reliability and performance of our autonomous vehicle platforms
• Advancement of Testing Practices : Champion the adoption of best practices in software testing across the organization, providing guidance and support to software developers in crafting effective and robust testing strategies
• Drive Testing Strategy : Collaborate with product managers and Wayve’s Automotive Verification and Product Management teams to ensure the testing strategies of our onboard software support business needs
• Leadership and Mentorship : Lead and mentor a team of engineers in test and other software engineers, fostering their skills growth and ensuring alignment with the overall goals of Wayve’s testing and quality assurance efforts
• Continuous Improvement : Contribute to the ongoing refinement and enhancement of Wayve’s software development life cycle, focusing on increasing efficiency, quality, and reliability

About You

Essential

• Proven Experience in Test Automation : Extensive experience in automating testing for embedded applications, particularly within the automotive industry.
• Technical Proficiency : Strong proficiency in developing test frameworks in Python, with additional programming skills in either of our development languages of C++ and Rust.
• Deep Knowledge of Testing Methodologies : In-depth understanding of software testing best practices, methodologies, and techniques aimed at driving continuous quality improvement and ensuring fitness for purpose.
• Leadership in Test Engineering : Demonstrated experience leading other engineers in the design and implementation of test frameworks, with a strong focus on mentoring and team development.
• Exceptional Communication Skills : Ability to effectively communicate complex testing strategies and practices across an organization, influencing and collaborating with software developers and other stakeholders.

Desirable

• Automotive Industry Expertise : Familiarity with automotive software development environments and standards, such as ASPICE and ISO 26262.
• Educational Background : A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field. A Master’s degree is highly desirable.

Your efforts will directly impact the future of autonomous vehicles, enhancing their adaptability, reliability, and efficiency through innovative approaches such as model-free and model-based reinforcement learning, efficient vision-language models, and more.

In this role, you will be at the forefront of designing and optimizing foundation models that are both powerful and resource-efficient, tailored for the unique demands of embodied AI and autonomous systems.

Your work will involve but not limited to :

• Design and optimize ultra-efficient foundation models specifically tailored for autonomous systems and embodied AI.
• Develop and refine techniques such as model-free and model-based reinforcement learning, and efficient vision-language models to improve the adaptability, reliability, and efficiency of autonomous systems.
• Collaborate with world-class researchers and engineers to push the boundaries of AI, contributing significantly to the evolution of autonomous driving technology.
• Influence the future of autonomous vehicles, helping to shape a smarter, safer, and more efficient transportation ecosystem.

This is a full-time role based in our office 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.

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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.