Senior Field Engineer
Wayve is a London-headquartered embodied-AI company developing and licensing mapless, vehicle-agnostic driving software for assisted, automated, and robotaxi applications.
About Wayve
Wayve Technologies Ltd. develops the Wayve AI Driver, an end-to-end, data-trained software platform that runs on onboard vehicle compute and native sensors. It is designed for OEM integration across L1 driver assistance through L4 automated driving, without HD maps.
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About the Role
You will resolve complex vehicle software and hardware issues, lead fault triage and repairs, and support high-severity escalations. You will set technical priorities during shifts, mentor Field Engineers, own projects and operational improvements, document learnings, and coordinate with stakeholders while maintaining safety and compliance standards.
Requirements
- Experience diagnosing complex vehicle software and hardware issues in fleet, automotive, robotics, or ADAS environments
- Understanding of software logs, deployments, configuration, system states, and failure modes
- Ability to solve ambiguous problems independently
- Experience setting technical priorities and guiding others
- Experience owning projects, processes, or systems end-to-end
- Communication and collaboration skills across teams and regions
- Understanding of safety protocols, incident management, and operational governance
- Familiarity with vehicle diagnostic tools, Datadog, Mender, and JIRA
- Availability for shift-based 24/7 support, including weekends and bank holidays
- Experience supporting or leading on-road testing operations
- Understanding of ADAS or autonomous vehicle systems
Responsibilities
- Lead resolution of complex vehicle software and hardware issues
- Act as an escalation point for high-severity regional faults
- Support cross-regional escalations across the US, UK, Germany, and Japan
- Ensure fault triage, diagnosis, and repairs meet safety and compliance standards
- Set day-to-day technical priorities and guide Field Engineers
- Mentor and unblock other Field Engineers during complex incidents
- Act as the operational stand-in for the Field Engineering Lead when required
- Own projects, processes, and systems from definition through adoption
- Identify recurring fleet issues and lead improvement initiatives
- Improve tooling, workflows, documentation, and operational practices
- Lead stakeholder discussions on diagnostic solutions
- Document and share technical learnings
- Champion safety-first decision-making and continuous improvement