Controls Engineer

Job description

Before the detail, here's the challenge you'd help us solve. We build the embodied intelligence that moves real vehicles safely, and the ecosystem a billion machines will run on in the future. Very few people in AI can say this. Every role here, whatever the team, plugs into that. Here’s what this particular role covers. 🛠️ About our Robotics Team The Robotics team is responsible for bridging the gap from our model to our vehicle platforms, in order to let the model focus on making driving decisions. We aim to provide high quality data to the model for making such decisions, whilst abstracting away platform-specific aspects. We combine specialisms across the robotics domain, blending strong theoretical foundations with solid engineering practice to span the spectrum from research to production. 🧠 Your day-to-day Develop, integrate, tune, and validate control, trajectory-generation, and action-processing algorithms across different vehicle platforms, operating modes, and challenging driving conditions, ensuring robust real-world performance Maintain and evolve our controls software architecture that connects AI Driver outputs to real-time vehicle actuation and feedback Own requirements, release readiness, and in-field performance and issue triage Implement and maintain production-quality, latency-sensitive control software in C++ for deployment to prototype, reference and production vehicles Use simulation, closed-loop evaluation and on-road testing to characterize controller behaviour, diagnose performance issues and validate improvements Work with teams across Wayve to define controller interfaces, integrate with adjacent systems and enable new vehicle platforms and product features (Ownership through the full lifecycle) Define and track quality metrics (e.g., comfort, tracking error, and safety margin KPIs, and regressions against them) Contribute to safety artefacts: provide evidence for safety cases, work with the safety team to ensure compliance with required standards 🧩 What you’ll be working on: In this role you will develop and improve the vehicle trajectory and motion controllers that translate the Wayve AI Driver outputs into safe, smooth and robust vehicle motion across different vehicle platforms and applications (both ADAS and AV). You’ll tackle cutting-edge challenges: developing principled controls approaches, implementing real time system…