Staff Software Engineer - Platform Integration, Robot Software

About the role

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.

🛠️ About our Engineering Teams

Wayve is building embodied AI that can drive any vehicle, anywhere. Within Robot Software, the Platform Integration team brings together the software and interfaces that enable our AI Driver to operate on new development platforms.

The team owns early vehicle software integration, drive-by-wire and the vehicle-facing software drivers. We work across software, hardware, controls and operations to bring up new vehicle variants, improve their reliability and establish repeatable processes for validation and handover.

As a Staff Software Engineer, you’ll bring deep experience in software, hardware, robotics and autonomous vehicle integration. You’ll lead the team’s integration architecture, mentor engineers and help resolve its most complex technical challenges. You’ll work with the Engineering Manager on the technical roadmap and with other leads across Robot Software on system design and integration decisions, while staying hands-on with software development and vehicle bring-up.

🧠 Your day-to-day

- Lead integration architecture and author design documents that define interfaces, evaluate trade-offs and guide implementation across vehicle programmes.

- Partner with the Engineering Manager to shape the technical roadmap, balancing programme delivery with improvements to architecture, tooling and maintainability.

- Unblock the most complex integration challenges, diagnosing problems across application software, middleware, operating systems, networks and hardware.

- Mentor engineers through design discussions, code reviews and hands-on debugging, building the team’s technical judgement and independence.

- Represent Platform Integration in technical discussions across Robot Software, aligning with other technical leads on interfaces, dependencies and ownership.

- Develop and review production software, establishing patterns that reduce bespoke integration work and improve reuse.

- Lead targeted bench, HiL and vehicle investigations where hands-on work is needed to resolve uncertainty or validate a design.

- Turn lessons from bring-up and field issues into better diagnostics, integration practices, documentation and validation.

🧩 What you’ll be working on

- Integration architecture for new vehicle programmes across embedded compute, sensors, vehicle interfaces, networks and software services.

- Shared vehicle-facing components and abstractions that support multiple hardware configurations without duplicating integration logic.

- System-level integration of Linux-based robotic and automotive platforms with multi-process and distributed architectures.