Senior Software Engineer - OS, Robot Software
AI summary of the role
Senior Software Engineer on the OS team within Robot Software at Wayve, responsible for curating Wayve's bespoke Linux distribution installed across the development fleet.
What you’ll do
- Own the creation and maintenance of Linux kernel and device drivers.
- Collaborate with Product, Project, and Engineering management to advise and build the right solution.
- Build and deliver software in C++ with high quality and reliability, ensuring observability and debuggability on remote devices with limited connectivity.
- Create robust, fault-tolerant software solutions with comprehensive system diagnostics to keep the deployed fleet operating at maximum capacity.
What you’ll bring
- Proficiency developing high-performance embedded Linux systems software in C and C++.
- Familiarity with embedded Linux (kernel, device tree), build systems (Yocto), boot sequence, secured boot, and user space application software development.
- Ability to debug performance issues, stack traces, core dumps, slow disk writes, high system load, memory bottlenecks, external device bottlenecks, and threading issues.
- Strong understanding of IPC mechanisms and how to configure IPC middleware for high data throughput robotics applications (e.g., ROS).
Technologies
Linux kernel · device drivers · Yocto · C++ · C · embedded Linux · device tree · ROS · IPC · Nvidia Jetson · Nvidia Drive · QNX
About Wayve
Builds mapless, hardware-agnostic embodied AI driving software that automakers and fleet platforms can deploy from L2+ ADAS through L4 robotaxis.
Series D
Source and classification
Internal deployment & tooling · Evidence for this classification:
environment; we back each other to deliver impact. Make Wayve the experience that defines your career! The role The Robot Software team is responsible for the software that runs on our internal fleet of vehicles to enable autonomous driving and collect data for training new driving models. You will join a motivated and talented team of engineers to deliver a reliable, stable and flexible software stack to support on-road experimentation by our model developers and scientists. Your work will enable these teams to iterate quickly and gather the data they need to improve our autonomous driving capabilities and support new product features, which is critical to the success of Wayve’s mission. The OS team within Robot Software are the curators of Wayve's bespoke Linux distribution, which is installed across our ever-expanding development fleet. The team works closely with various groups
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