Location
London - Hybrid working model combining in-person collaboration in offices and workshops with focused remote work.

Hours
Full Time

Salary
Negotiable, benchmarked against the market annually

About the Role
Wayve is building the embodied intelligence that moves real vehicles safely and the ecosystem a billion machines will run on in the future. The Staff Validation Systems Engineer role is part of the AI Validation team, which develops strategies, evidence, metrics, and test systems to build confidence in the Wayve AI Driver. This role focuses primarily on ADAS and Level 2 autonomy functions, working closely with automotive and OEM expectations including product, customer, safety, and regulatory requirements. The position can be hired as a senior individual contributor (TC4) or as a manager (M4) responsible for technical direction and team delivery.

Day-to-day responsibilities include translating product, systems, and safety requirements into validation strategies, test scenarios, metrics, coverage requirements, and acceptance criteria. You will work hands-on with Python, evaluation pipelines, test implementation, simulation, and data analysis. You will analyse results and communicate findings, risks, and evidence to Product, Safety, Release, and Autonomy Engineering stakeholders. Coordination of data, simulation, and evaluation dependencies to enable reliable and scalable validation is key. You will develop comprehensive verification strategies for ADAS and L2 autonomy functions and translate customer, OEM, safety, and regulatory expectations into practical validation evidence. Building test suites spanning simulation and physical testing environments is essential. At the M4 level, you will provide people leadership and coordinate validation delivery across the team; at TC4, you will provide senior technical ownership as an individual contributor.

Projects include ADAS functions such as lane keeping and other assisted-driving capabilities, validation strategies aligned with automotive OEM development, customer expectations, SOTIF, and emerging AV-industry standards. You will work with simulated and physical test environments, ensuring comprehensive coverage and evidence-based release decisions. The role involves Python-based evaluation tooling, SQL and scalable data analysis, behavioural metrics, test coverage, and automated validation execution.

Wayve offers meaningful equity, relocation support and visa sponsorship where applicable, hybrid working, hands-on access to workshops and labs, learning and development support, and comprehensive location-dependent health, family, retirement, and wellbeing benefits. This is an opportunity to join a pioneering AI platform for autonomous driving where you will have real ownership and help shape how the company works.

Experience
- Understanding of how automotive companies and OEMs develop and validate ADAS or L2 autonomy products.
- Hands-on experience building scenarios, metrics, test suites, evaluation pipelines, or data-analysis workflows.
- Professional use of Python and comfort with SQL or similar large-scale analysis tools.
- Experience validating complex systems in simulation, the real world, or both.
- For M4 roles, experience leading people or coordinating a validation function; for TC4 roles, strong senior individual-contributor ownership.

About you
- Ability to translate customer, safety, regulatory, and product expectations into structured validation strategies.
- Clear communication skills, strong documentation habits, and ownership of ambiguous problems from concept through evidence and recommendation.
- Passionate about autonomy and keen to learn.
- Experience or knowledge in ML, computer vision, motion planning, SOTIF, safety validation, or modern AI tooling is advantageous.

Qualifications
No specific formal qualifications are required; a positive attitude, passion for autonomy, and willingness to learn are highly valued.