Test Engineer

As a Test Engineer in our Germany team, you own automated verification for a defined area of the embedded software stack. You’ll build robust test automation, drive fault analysis across teams, and raise coverage, reliability, and traceability. The role offers growth into sensing and model-behaviour testing as the company and your experience evolve. You’ll work hands-on to advance Wayve’s autonomous driving capabilities in the German market. This is a hands-on role with impact across the system.

• competitive salaries
• meaningful equity
• relocation support and visa sponsorship
• hybrid working with core hours
• learning and development budgets
• comprehensive health benefits and dental insurance

• Design and deliver automated verification for embedded software stacks
• Build reusable test automation and expand coverage across component, integration, and system levels
• Lead root-cause investigations for test campaign findings across hardware, software, and infrastructure teams
• Optimize CI/CD-integrated test workflows (Buildkite) for rapid, reliable execution
• Integrate third-party verification tools (JAMA, MC/DC, MISRA); manage artefacts via Artifactory and Azure
• Define and track KPIs and quality metrics for system testing to inform release decisions
• Identify and report software/hardware bugs and improve test coverage and traceability
• Suggest infrastructure improvements to enhance test coverage and compliance reporting
• ReviewRisk Assessments to ensure safe and responsible testing practices
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including software, hardware, autonomy, DevOps, and product

• Hands-on system-level verification/validation in robotics, embedded software, or mechatronics, with independently delivered test automation
• Experience with L2+ hands-off, L3, or L4 automated driving systems
• Knowledge of consumer safety-rating protocols (Euro NCAP etc.), DCAS regulatory testing, and automotive cybersecurity standards (ISO/SAE 21434, UN R155)
• Experience with HiL testing and tooling (CAN, Ethernet, GMSL, dSPACE, Vector, Xylon)
• Strong Python skills; experience building automation frameworks with pytest
• Interface-level testing experience (hardware/software interactions, embedded interfaces)
• Experience integrating software quality tools/standards (ASPICE, SOTIF, ISO 26262, JAMA, X-RAY)
• Knowledge of open/closed-loop HiL replay using dSPACE or emulators
• Proficiency in CI/CD (GitLab CI, Buildkite, Bazel)
• Experience with test dashboards/logging/reporting (Grafana, Looker, Datadog, JIRA)
• Experience in automotive software across embedded/system levels
• Strong cross-functional communication with software, hardware, autonomy, DevOps, and product teams

• Self-starter with improvement mindset
• Strong cross-functional communication
• Collaborative mindset across software, hardware, autonomy, and product teams
• Python automation and pytest
• HiL replay and testing tools (dSPACE, similar emulators)
• CI/CD tooling (GitLab CI, Buildkite, Bazel)