System Test Engineer, Wayve
2-5 days a week in office (Sunnyvale, CA)
Autonomous mobility driven by AI
Open for applications
Autonomous mobility driven by AI
201-500 employees
Open for applications
2-5 days a week in office (Sunnyvale, CA)
201-500 employees
Company mission
To reimagine autonomous mobility through embodied intelligence.
Role
Who you are
- Ideal candidate is a self starter and has a keen eye for improvement across multiple engineering domains
- Fundamental understanding of Electrical and Mechanical engineering concepts
- Proven experience in systems level thinking on requirements generation and verification
- Hardware and/or Software testing experience on production systems
Desirable
- Zero-to-One type experience in system test campaign definition and execution
- Expertise in Systems Engineering of robotics systems
- Previous leadership in bringing up a Hardware and Software testing organization
- Experience testing systems written in C++, Rust, Python
What the job involves
- Wayve's Hardware & Systems Test team is at the intersection of Hardware, Embedded Software and Machine Learning Models
- Testing takes place at component, system and vehicle levels
- We excel at finding the most efficient and effective way of using our resources to get the most valuable results for the company
- We are looking for a new team member to join our group to help us scale up our efforts across embedded software verification
- This role can expand into other areas of the system such as sensing, model behavior testing depending on the needs of the company and the experience of the individual
- Own, define and execute system functionality verification tests on Wayve’s Embodied AI systems at component, system and vehicle level
- Uncover potential software and hardware bugs through increased test coverage
- Help define and architect Hardware in the Loop (HiL) test stations
- Lead increased test coverage activities using HiL test stations
- Lead root cause analysis of hardware and software issues found during test campaigns
Our take
Wayve is developing artificial intelligence (AI) that teaches cars to drive autonomously using reinforcement learning, simulation, and computer vision. Wayve’s core premise is that the big breakthrough in self-driving cars will come from better AI brains rather than more sensors or “hand-coded” rules which it believes are highly restrictive and not at all scalable.
The company said that it trains its autonomous driving system using simulated environments and then transfers that knowledge into the real world, where it emulates how humans adapt to conditions in real time. It ultimately relies on end-to-end deep learning AI rather than hard-engineered AI. This is one of the world's hardest problems to solve, but Wayve has made an exciting start and is taking a very different approach to competitors like Uber and Waymo, who are relying more on sensors.
Following a few years of innovative breakthroughs, Wayve now has backing from high-profile investors such as Microsoft and angels, including Uber's chief scientist Zoubin Ghahramani and Pieter Abbeel, a UC Berkeley robotics professor and pioneer of deep reinforcement learning. The company's strategic partnerships with outfits like Asda and Ocado to test-run autonomous deliveries, as well as publicity through the Minister is a show of confidence in the future of Wayve's solution to autonomous driving.
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Insights
Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
28% female employees
24% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
May 2024
$1.1bn
SERIES C
Jan 2022
$200m
SERIES B
Total funding: $1.3bn
Company benefits
- Learning budget
- In-house chef
- Flexible Working
- Private health insurance and therapy
- Workplace nursery scheme
- Onsite bar
- Large social budgets
- Enhanced parental leave
Company values
- Pave new roads, explore unknown horizons: We take calculated risks and embrace unknown territory
- Leave positive tracks: A big reason for working on autonomous vehicles is for the positive impact they can have to the environment, the lives they will save, the opportunities they will create for others and more!
- Autonomous in thought, collective in action: We are built of strong, curious individuals coming from all walks of life, but who, together, want to achieve a common goal.
- Drive each other forward: We are a company that stands strong upon the foundation which it has created. This foundation is the team, the individuals who make Wayve, Wayve.
Company HQ
London, UK
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Leadership
Alex Kendall
(CEO)Has a PhD from Cambridge in Computer Vision & Robotics. Previously Research Engineer at Skydio and Advisor to Scape Technologies
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