Wayve
Senior Software Engineer, Data
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Founded in 2017, Wayve is the leading developer of Embodied AI technology. Our advanced AI software and foundation models enable vehicles to perceive, understand, and navigate any complex environment, enhancing the usability and safety of automated driving systems.
Our vision is to create autonomy that propels the world forward. Our intelligent, mapless, and hardware-agnostic AI products are designed for automakers, accelerating the transition from assisted to automated driving.
In our fast-paced environment, big problems ignite us—we embrace uncertainty, leaning into complex challenges to unlock groundbreaking solutions. We aim high and stay humble in our pursuit of excellence, constantly learning and evolving as we pave the way for a smarter, safer future.
At Wayve, your contributions matter. We value diversity, embrace new perspectives, and foster an inclusive work environment; we back each other to deliver impact.
Make Wayve the experience that defines your career!
The role
Portal is the cloud platform that connects Wayve to the outside world: handling data exchange with partners, surfacing AI insights, and enabling the commercial deployment of Wayve's AI driver on vehicles across the globe.
We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer, Data to help build Wayve's Data Transfer Hub: a mission-critical piece of infrastructure that will scale to transfer petabytes of sensor data per day from partners covering vehicles around the world.
This is a pivotal project at Wayve. You'll work as part of a small, high-autonomy team building a globally distributed hub-and-spoke data exchange system, working with partners like Uber, Stellantis, and Nissan. Your work will help make Wayve's AI model training possible at scale.
Key responsibilities:
- Build and operate large-scale data transfer pipelines for video, LiDAR, and sensor data from global partners at up to PB/day scale.
- Contribute to the technical design of the Data Transfer Hub, making pragmatic trade-offs across UX, careliability, throughput, cost, partner constraints, observability, and operational support.
- Build parallelised, distributed data transfer pipelines using Flyte for workflow orchestration, Kafka/event-driven patterns for lifecycle tracing, and Azure for storage and transfer infrastructure.
- Help implement and evolve a globally distributed hub-and-spoke data transfer model to retrieve and share sensor data at scale with partners.
- Write infrastructure-as-code in Terraform and pipeline logic primarily in Python.
- Build reliable operational foundations, including retry strategies, backfills, data integrity checks, lifecycle/state tracking, dashboards, and alerting.
- Work on cloud-to-cloud and cross-cloud networking solutions, with Azure as the primary cloud platform.
- Once established, participate in an out-of-hours on-call and support rotation.
- Collaborate with product, commercial, and partner-facing teams to understand constraints and deliver solutions that solve real customer and partner problems.
- Work in a fast-changing environment where requirements and partner deliverable dates evolve, while maintaining high engineering standards.
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About you
In order to set you up for success as a Senior Software Engineer at Wayve, we’re looking for the following skills and experience.
Essential
- Proven experience building and operating large-scale data transfer, ingestion, or data processing pipelines, ideally at multi-TB or PB scale.
- Strong software engineering skills.
- Experience delivering & maintaining production systems.
- Experience with workflow orchestration for parallelised jobs; Flyte preferred, but Airflow, Prefect, or similar tools are also relevant.
- Experience building reliable, observable data systems, including retry strategies, backfills, data integrity checks, lifecycle/state tracking, and operational alerting.
- Strong cloud platform skills, with Azure preferred; experience with AWS or GCP is a plus.
- Proficiency in Python and Terraform.
- Experience with blob/object storage, large-scale file movement, networking, or cloud-to-cloud data transfer.
- A product mindset: you think about the customer and build solutions that fix real problems, not just implement requirements.
- Comfort working in a fast-changing environment with evolving requirements.
- A strong sense of ownership: you take responsibility for outcomes, communicate clearly, and help the team move quickly.
Desirable
- Experience working with external data partners or customer-facing technical integrations.
- Background in autonomous vehicles, robotics, geospatial data, video processing, or other data-intensive domains.
- Experience with Kafka or other event-driven systems for transfer observability and lifecycle tracking.
- Experience building dashboards to communicate transfer job status.
- Multi-cloud experience across Azure, AWS, and/or GCP.
- Experience improving cost efficiency, throughput, or reliability of large-scale cloud data systems.
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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.
Wayve is committed to creating an inclusive interview experience. If you require any accommodations or adjustments to participate fully in our interview process, please let us know.
We understand that everyone has a unique set of skills and experiences and that not everyone will meet all of the requirements listed above. If you’re passionate about self-driving cars and think you have what it takes to make a positive impact on the world, we encourage you to apply.
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 sex, race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding) or any other basis as protected by applicable law.
For more information, visit Careers at Wayve.
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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.
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