Software Engineer, Wayve
Site Reliability Engineering
2-5 days a week in office
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
201-500 employees
Company mission
To reimagine autonomous mobility through embodied intelligence.
Role
Who you are
- We're on the lookout for a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with a thirst for innovation and a desire to establish Operational Excellence and best practices
- Over 8 years experience in Site Reliability Engineering or a similar role, especially in a production environment
- Expertise in Python, C++, or Rust, with a solid foundation in cloud computing platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
- Expert of CI/CD processes, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and a deep understanding of networking, distributed systems, and databases
- Expert with monitoring and troubleshooting utilities (DataDog, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, Splunk, Humio, etc.)
- Exceptional problem-solving skills and a detail-oriented mindset, coupled with outstanding communication abilities
Desirable
- Experience with Azure, a background in autonomous vehicles, or involvement in ML/AI projects
What the job involves
- You'll be instrumental in fortifying the backbone of our AI-driven autonomous vehicles, ensuring they're robust, resilient, and ready to revolutionise urban mobility
- This role isn't just a job; it's a chance to be at the forefront of an industry transformation, making a significant impact on how we live, work, and navigate our cities
- Elevate Operational Excellence: Guarantee the seamless operation of our autonomous vehicles on public roads, enhancing our ability to transform urban mobility
- Innovate and Automate: Drive the development of cutting-edge tools and automation to streamline operations, from first-line support enhancements to fleet management
- Metrics and Monitoring Mastery: Develop key metrics and monitoring/logging systems that preempt problems and promote rapid resolution, ensuring the highest levels of performance and reliability
- Master the intricate dance of software and hardware that powers autonomous navigation, crafting solutions that set new industry benchmarks
- Spearhead the adoption of forward-thinking tools and technologies that align with our visionary goals, both now and in the future
- Champion automation to continuously elevate our efficiency, aiming to make manual interventions a thing of the past
Salary benchmarks
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
Few 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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