Principal Application Software Engineer

In this role you bring up and validate Wayve’s AI software on customer hardware, ensuring reliability across diverse platforms. You will collaborate with verification, release, and OEM teams to enable smooth integration into automotive environments. You’ll balance platform bring-up, customer engagement, and technical leadership to help scale our autonomy stack across OEMs. This is a hands-on, cross-functional role that shapes how our software runs in real vehicles and accelerates deployment with partners. You’ll join a mission to make autonomy universal and work on impactful, real-world challenges.

• Salaries benchmarked against market
• Meaningful equity
• Relocation support and visa sponsorship
• Hybrid working with core hours
• Learning and development budgets
• Comprehensive benefits incl. health/dental, enhanced maternity/paternity leave, pension, wellbeing programs

• Execute software bring-up on customer hardware platforms (e.g., NVIDIA Drive, Qualcomm Ride)
• Port and configure Linux-based systems (Yocto, systemd, bootloaders, device trees) and QNX/Adaptive AUTOSAR environments
• Integrate and validate drivers, middleware, and boot-time configurations
• Collaborate with Verification, Release, and OEM teams to integrate hardware into CI/CD, HIL, and test infrastructure
• Resolve hardware-specific integration issues with OEM and Tier 1 partners
• Implement system-level diagnostics, logging, and secure boot configurations
• Develop automation for setup, flashing, health checks, and test execution on target hardware
• Define and execute strategy for integrating autonomy stack into multiple OEM platforms
• Build the team and provide technical leadership across integration work

• 8+ years of experience in embedded or automotive software development
• Strong proficiency in C/C++, Bash, and Python
• Deep understanding of Linux-based embedded systems (Yocto, systemd, bootloaders, device trees)
• Familiarity with QNX and Adaptive AUTOSAR and ability to configure/debug on target hardware
• Experience with bring-up on automotive-grade SoCs (NVIDIA Orin, Qualcomm SA8295/SA8650, Renesas, TI)
• Comfortable with hardware debuggers, flashing tools, serial consoles, and BSPs
• Familiarity with CAN, Ethernet, PCIe, SPI, I2C
• Hands-on experience integrating embedded platforms into CI/CD pipelines and test automation frameworks

• Exposure to automotive verification environments (e.g., HIL, Vector toolchains)
• Experience in safety-critical domains with ISO 26262 awareness
• Understanding of secure boot, OTA updates, and system cybersecurity topics
• Docker
• Jenkins
• Git