Solution Architect

As Solution Architect, you bridge Wayve's AI Driver with customer vehicle systems, shaping integration architecture across sensors, ECUs and vehicle signals. You collaborate with cross‑functional teams to translate requirements into technical specs, ownership boundaries and verification plans. You will drive scalable, safe, and verifiable integrations with OEMs and Tier 1 partners. This role offers the chance to influence how software and hardware connect in real-world vehicles, contributing to a broader autonomous driving platform. You will work in a mission‑driven environment that values ownership and practical, validated engineering.

• Salaries benchmarked against the market annually
• Meaningful equity
• Relocation support and visa sponsorship
• Hybrid working with core hours
• Learning and development budgets
• Comprehensive benefits including health insurance and wellbeing support

• Define and manage technical architecture for customer vehicle integrations, focusing on interfaces between Wayve software and OEM/Tier 1 systems
• Translate product requirements into clear technical specifications and acceptance criteria
• Clarify ownership, contracts, assumptions, dependencies, and open decisions from ambiguous customer discussions
• Align customer integration needs with Wayve’s core architecture with Software Architects
• Coordinate with Validation Engineers to define verifiable integration test requirements
• Represent Wayve in OEM/Tier 1 technical discussions to align plans and manage risks
• Develop interface specifications, integration guides, architecture diagrams and decision records
• Translate integration needs and safety assumptions into verifiable requirements
• Identify integration complexity, risks and required partner deliverables for realistic program planning

• Systems and software architecture experience in ADAS or autonomous driving
• Knowledge of vehicle electronics, ECU integration, real-time execution, timing and diagnostics
• Experience with CAN, Automotive Ethernet, SOME/IP or AUTOSAR
• Experience working with automotive OEMs or Tier 1 suppliers to derive technical specifications and validation-ready requirements
• Ability to collaborate across product, software, hardware, safety, validation and customer-facing teams
• Comfort with owning ambiguous technical problems and communicating architectural decisions via documentation and diagrams

• Cross-functional collaboration
• Clear written and verbal communication
• Independent problem solving and decision making
• Embedded automotive software and architectures
• ECU integration, real-time systems, diagnostics
• CAN, Automotive Ethernet, SOME/IP, AUTOSAR