Software Engineer, Wayve

Build and Release

Salary not provided

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

GCP

JavaScript

Python

Linux

Gradle

Terraform

C++

Jenkins

Ansible

Rust

Azure

Maven

Ubuntu

CMake

Bazel

Senior level

San Francisco Bay Area

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

B2CB2BArtificial IntelligenceCarsTransportBig dataDeep TechRoboticsFlexible workingComputer VisionMachine LearningSaaSCloud Computing

Open for applications

Salary not provided

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

GCP

JavaScript

Python

Linux

Gradle

Terraform

C++

Jenkins

Ansible

Rust

Azure

Maven

Ubuntu

CMake

Bazel

Senior level

San Francisco Bay Area

2-5 days a week in office (Sunnyvale, CA)

201-500 employees

B2CB2BArtificial IntelligenceCarsTransportBig dataDeep TechRoboticsFlexible workingComputer VisionMachine LearningSaaSCloud Computing

Company mission

To reimagine autonomous mobility through embodied intelligence.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

5+ years professional experience in Software Engineering, DevOps, CI/CD or similar role
Build systems experience: Bazel ideally, alternatively Buck, Pants, Cmake, Make, Maven or Gradle
Experience with CI/CD systems (ideally buildkite/gitlab CI/travis/circle CI ; bamboo or jenkins (with very thorough understanding of jenkins pipelines) can work
Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g. Terraform, Ansible)
Experience in Python is required (but we are not looking for language-expert)
Strong debugging skills; willingness to optimise your code
Attitude to make the best for other engineers and yourself
Experience with Linux systems (esp. Ubuntu) & shell scripting

Desirable

Experience with Docker, Kubernetes and Cloud systems (we use mostly Azure)
Additional programming languages (mostly Rust, C++, JS)
Cloud Experience: Azure, AWS or GCP
Yocto/bitbake/buildroot

What the job involves

Making our build system faster, more efficient and shinier than ever
Ensuring that we and our engineers use the right tools in the most efficient manner to achieve our goals
Keeping tools, technologies and frameworks we use up-to-date
Performing general administration and technical duties in order to support activities and operations within the Build & Release team
Setting in operation a new system ensuring our pipelines are fast and reproducible to reduce the flakiness of different build stages across the entire company
Supporting the team’s objectives and technical strategies to identify and seize opportunities that enhance the overall efficiency of the team

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.

Kirsty

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

Top investors

Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

28% female employees

24% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (4.6)

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

Articles

Startup Says End-To-End Machine Learning Is "Only Scalable Solution" For Self-Driving Cars

Wayve raises $200M Series B led by Eclipse for its AI for autonomous delivery vehicles

Our Road Ahead

Autonomous Vehicle Software Maker Wayve Raises $200M From Microsoft

Wayve and Microsoft partner to scale autonomous vehicles

Self-driving cars to be on Britain’s roads by 2026 as Transport Secretary hints at massive law changes

Wayve wins a CLEPA Innovation Award 2023 for cutting-edge AI technology

Wayve presents first generative AI model for autonomous vehicles

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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