Who we are
Established in 2017, Wayve is a leader in autonomous vehicle technology, driven by breakthroughs in Embodied AI. Our intelligent, mapless, and hardware-agnostic technologies empower vehicles to navigate complex environments effortlessly.
Supported by prominent investors, Wayve is advancing the transition from assisted to fully automated driving, making transportation safer, more efficient, and universally accessible. Join our world-class, multinational team of engineers and researchers as we push the boundaries of frontier AI and autonomous driving, creating impactful technologies and products on a global scale
Where you will have an impact
- Improve Wayve's trajectory controller and its interaction with other parts of the AV stack, thus increasing overall driving performance
- Expand the trajectory controller's operational domain to new vehicles and new driving conditions
- Build out our performance evaluation pipeline for the trajectory controller
Challenges you will own
- Maintaining and expanding our custom MPC-based trajectory controller coupled with ML-based trajectory generation system
- Building theoretical foundations for ML-coupled vehicle control systems
- Implementing and testing vehicle control in complex scenarios such as highway or bad weather, and for future vehicle platforms that Wayve will build on
- Bringing up simulation and evaluation systems to achieve optimality of the trajectory controller in the real world
What you will bring to Wayve
Essential
- Strong theoretical knowledge of control theory, optimisation, model-predictive control, state estimation and numerical methods
- Practical experience in developing and tuning control systems for real world applications, both in simulation and in reality
- Experience productionisng and scaling systems including real-time controllers and monitoring their performance at scale
- Strong C++ and Python skills
Desirable
- Experience with vehicle control or vehicle dynamic
What we offer you
- The chance to be part of a truly mission driven organisation and an opportunity to shape the future of autonomous driving. Unlike our competitors, Wayve is still relatively small and nimble, giving you the chance to make a huge impact
- Competitive compensation and benefits
- A dynamic and fast-paced work environment in which you will grow every day - learning on the job, from the brightest minds in our space, and with support for more formal learning opportunities too
- A culture that is ego-free, respectful and welcoming (of you and your dog) - we even eat lunch together every day
- Benefits such as an onsite chef, workplace nursery scheme, private health insurance, cycle scheme, therapy, yoga, two onsite bars, large social budgets
- This is a full-time role based in our office in London. 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 also operate core working hours so you can be where you need to be for family and loved ones too. Teams determine the routines that work best for them.
At Wayve we're committed to creating a diverse, fair and respectful culture that is inclusive of everyone based on their unique skills and perspectives, and regardless of gender, gender identity, gender expression, race, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, ethnicity, age or religious belief
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.
