System Test Automation Engineer

🧩 What you’ll be working on:

• Independently owning the design and delivery of automated verification for a defined area of our embedded software stack, steadily raising the bar on coverage, reliability and traceability.
• Building open-loop and closed-loop hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) replay tests, alongside reliability and fault-injection tests, to support verification, release and debugging.
• Automating HIL test setups and improving test infrastructure to expand coverage, make failures easier to trace and strengthen compliance reporting.
• Integrating requirements, coverage and compliance workflows, including Jama, MC/DC coverage analysis and MISRA checks, and managing test artefacts through Artifactory and Azure.
• Developing traceability dashboards and defining KPIs and quality metrics that support data-driven validation and release decisions.

🙌 You should apply if:

• You have hands-on experience with system-level verification and validation in robotics, embedded software or mechatronic systems, with a track record of independently delivering test automation.
• You’re highly proficient in Python and have experience developing automation test frameworks using pytest.
• You’ve worked with HIL testing and tooling, including interfaces such as CAN, Ethernet or GMSL, and tools from dSPACE, Vector, Xylon or similar providers.
• You understand open-loop and closed-loop HIL replay testing using dSPACE or other emulators.
• You’re familiar with automotive safety and process standards, including ISO 26262, ASPICE and SOTIF, and have experience integrating requirements and test-management tools such as Jama and Xray.
• You’re proficient in CI/CD principles and related tooling, such as GitLab CI, Buildkite and Bazel.
• You have experience developing or testing automotive software at embedded and system levels, including hardware/software interactions and interface-level testing, and have worked with L2+ hands-off, L3 or L4 automated driving systems.
• You have knowledge of consumer safety-rating protocols such as Euro NCAP, including AEB and LSS/LKA scenarios; DCAS regulatory testing under UN R171; and automotive cybersecurity testing and standards, including ISO/SAE 21434 and UN R155.
• You’ve worked with test automation dashboards, logging and reporting infrastructure, using tools such as Grafana, Looker, Datadog and Jira.
• You’re a self-starter with a sharp eye for improvement who communicates clearly and works effectively across software, hardware, autonomy, DevOps and product teams.
• Ideally, you’ve contributed to improvements in test methods, safety procedures or operational efficiency, and are familiar with data management and version control tools such as Git.
• Experience using agentic AI coding tools such as Cursor or Claude Code to accelerate and improve test development, debugging and automation workflows would also be valuable.

🌱 Not ticking every box? That’s totally okay! If you’re passionate about autonomy and keen to learn, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every requirement.

More about Wayve:

🚀 Wayve is building the leading AI platform for autonomous driving. We are pioneering an end to end AI approach that enables vehicles to learn directly from real world experience, developing the ability to adapt, generalise and improve at scale. Instead of relying on hand coded rules or pre mapped environments, our AI Driver learns to drive by understanding the world around it. The result is technology that navigates complex urban environments with intelligence, precision and natural flow, unlocking meaningful advances in both safety and efficiency. We believe autonomy represents a once in a generation transformation in how people and goods move, comparable to the shift from horses to cars, and from human driven vehicles to intelligent machines.

Our ambition is to make autonomy universal. Wayve’s mapless and hardware agnostic AI platform integrates with global OEM partners, enabling continuous software evolution and unlocking advanced levels of automation from L2 plus through to L4 as our core AI model scales. In a race increasingly defined by intelligence and real world learning, Wayve is taking a distinct approach, building a generalisable driving intelligence that can power any vehicle, anywhere. By combining embodied AI with scalable deployment, we are creating technology that can be shaped to each OEM brand and driver experience, accelerating the transition to a safer, more intelligent future of mobility.

How we work 💻- Locations & Flexible Working:

Our main hubs are in London, Sunnyvale, Yokohama, Herzliya, Vancouver and Leonberg. We operate a hybrid working model that combines in-person collaboration in our dedicated office spaces with focused time working remotely. This gives our teams the connection and energy of working together, alongside the flexibility to do their best work in a way that fits their lives.

🔍 The Interview Process:

Our process is clear and respectful of your time:

• Initial call / recruiter screen (30 minutes)
• Competency Interviews (Programming and hiring manager interview; 1 hour 45 minutes total)
• Deep-dive technical interviews (Cross-functional, system design; 1 hour 45 minutes total)
• Final interview : mission & values alignment (45 minutes).

We’ll always explain the format and work around your availability.

What’s in it for you (Location dependant):

💰 Salaries benchmarked against the market annually

✅ Hybrid working, core hours and the chance to work hands on in vehicle workshops and labs

📚 Learning and development budgets with support for training, conferences and growth

🩺 Comprehensive benefits including health insurance, dental, enhanced maternity and paternity leave, retirement or pension where applicable, access to therapists, wellbeing partnerships, team socials and more

A quick, honest note before you apply.

Wayve is not a mature, fully-structured place with the playbook already written. Much of how we work is still being written, and if you join, you’ll help write it. That suits people who want real ownership more than people who need a settled structure from day one.

If that sounds like the kind of problem you want to spend your time on, we’d really like to hear from you.

At Wayve we're committed to creating a diverse, fair and respectful culture that is inclusive of everyone based on their unique skills and perspectives, and regardless of sex, race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding) or any other basis as protected by applicable law.

For more information visit Careers at Wayve. To learn more about what drives us, visit Values at Wayve

DISCLAIMER: We will not ask about marriage or pregnancy, care responsibilities or disabilities in any of our job adverts or interviews. However, we do look to capture information about care responsibilities, and disabilities among other diversity information as part of an optional DEI Monitoring form to help us identify areas of improvement in our hiring process and ensure that the process is inclusive and non-discriminatory.

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