Platform Engineer

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

• 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 DevSecOps team

Challenges you will own

• Taking part in creating new development environment that will be used by all our engineers
• 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
• Driving the team’s objectives and technical strategies to identify and seize opportunities that enhance the overall efficiency of the team

We understand that everyone has a unique set of skills and experiences and that not everyone will meet all of the requirements listed below. 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.

What you will bring to Wayve

Essential

• 5+ years professional experience in Infrastructure, Platform Engineering, DevOps or a similar role
• Build systems experience: Bazel ideally, alternatively Buck, Pants, Cmake, Make, Maven or Gradle
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes and Cloud systems (we use mostly Azure)
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g. Terraform, Ansible)
• Experience in Python is required (but we are not looking for language-expert) and shell scripting (Bash)
• Strong debugging skills; willingness to optimise your code
• Attitude to make the best for other engineers and yourself

Desirable

• Team leadership experience
• Additional programming languages (mostly Rust, C++, Go, JS)
• Experience with Linux systems (esp. Ubuntu)

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 anonsite 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.

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