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Wayve is building an AI platform for autonomous driving using end-to-end learning. This role is a hands-on technical position within the Application Engineering team, based in Germany to support localization and advancement of Wayve's autonomous driving technology for the German market.
You will serve as a critical bridge between Wayve's customers and internal engineering teams throughout the development and validation lifecycle. Your day-to-day responsibilities include:
- Provide hands-on technical support to customers during development and validation phases
- Act as the primary liaison between customer vehicle integration teams and Wayve's internal engineering organization
- Troubleshoot and independently resolve technical issues related to Wayve's AI Driver technology
- Escalate complex or critical issues to appropriate internal stakeholders
- Develop deep understanding of customer systems and APIs (e.g., drive-by-wire interfaces) to guide internal teams effectively
- Maintain a system-level perspective to identify root causes, distinguishing between vehicle-related issues and Wayve software-specific problems
- Perform rapid diagnostics and real-time issue identification, leveraging proximity to customer locations
Your position near customers enables you to maintain holistic system understanding and collaborate directly with customer engineering teams on vehicle integration challenges.
Wayve operates a hybrid model with main hubs in London, Sunnyvale, Yokohama, Herzliya, Vancouver, and Leonberg. The role combines in-person collaboration with remote flexibility. You'll have access to vehicle workshops and labs for hands-on work.
The company offers competitive salaries benchmarked to market, meaningful equity, relocation support and visa sponsorship where applicable, learning and development budgets, comprehensive health insurance, dental coverage, enhanced parental leave, retirement/pension plans, wellness partnerships, and team socials.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Strong problem-solving skills and analytical thinking
- Proven ability to lead investigations into platform or vehicle issues in collaboration with internal and customer teams
- Extensive hands-on experience with development vehicles
- Proficiency with diagnostic and calibration tools (e.g., CANape or similar)
- Familiarity with terminal usage and willingness to develop basic programming skills
- Solid understanding of vehicle communication protocols (e.g., CAN, Ethernet) and automotive system architectures
- Practical experience working in an automotive environment, ideally with track record of bringing products to production
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills for collaboration with customers and internal teams
- Willingness to travel as required
Note: The posting explicitly welcomes applications from candidates not meeting every requirement if passionate about autonomy and willing to learn.
