Wayve is looking to ensure the reliability, performance, and safety of the software that runs on their autonomous vehicle (AV) development platforms by building and scaling automated test suites for their internal production fleet. This is critical for their data gathering efforts and model experimentation, as the reliability of their software directly impacts the reliability of their fleet.
Requirements
- A testing mindset.
- Experience leading a software quality or test automation team, preferably in embedded systems, robotics, or hardware-integrated software environments.
- Strong technical background in developing or maintaining scalable automated test frameworks.
- Experience with automotive-grade or safety-adjacent systems (e.g., HIL, SIL, FMEA, hardware diagnostics).
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, telemetry and observability stacks, or deployment systems for embedded software.
- Background in autonomous systems, AV validation, or hardware-in-the-loop testing infrastructure.
- Exposure to Python-based test orchestration, fuzz testing, or simulation tools.
Responsibilities
- Build and lead our internal test team
- Team leadership and strategic planning
- Mentorship and talent development
- Partnering with Development leads to drive our testing strategy
- Design, build, and scaling of our automated test suites for our internal production fleet
- Ensure the reliability, performance, and safety of the software that runs on our autonomous vehicle (AV) development platforms
- Collaborate with technical leads across Vehicle Software, Inference, AV Stack, and Reliability Engineering to embed automated testing into our development workflow
Other
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills across engineering and product domains.
- Track record of mentoring engineers and building healthy, high-performance team cultures.
- Deep understanding of test strategies for complex systems: from unit to integration to end-to-end testing.
- Experience working with high-performance, multi-threaded systems and low-level software (e.g., C++, Rust).
- This is a full-time role based in our office in Sunnyvale but is open for remote.
