Staff Validation Systems Engineer

About you

To succeed as a Validation Systems Engineer at Wayve, you’ll bring the following skills and experience:

Essential

• Clear, concise communicator with excellent documentation skills.
• Strong analytical skills with experience in evidence-based decision-making.
• Hands-on experience evaluating and validating complex engineered systems — whether through simulated scenario development, real-world testing, or both.
• Experience working in autonomy for driving, robotics, or related products.
• Proficiency in Python to implement metrics and work with evaluation codebase.
• Experience with both simulated and physical testing environments for autonomous systems.
• Experience analyzing and reporting validation results.
• Demonstrated ownership driving validation concepts from ideation to implementation in ambiguous, fast-paced environments.
• Degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Aerospace, or a related field.

Desirable

• Background in ML, Computer Vision, Motion Planning, or Data Science.
• Experience working in autonomy for driving, robotics, or related products.
• Experience with SOTIF and safety validation.
• Skilled in evaluating and validating learned or adaptive behaviors.
• Experience with modern AI tools and agentic workflows.
• Experience analyzing large datasets with SQL.
• Deep understanding of driving behavior and how to measure driving performance.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and implement a comprehensive validation strategy across test modalities to assess L2+ Driving Features that are part of the Wayve AI Driver product.
• Define and implement general purpose metrics for validating on-road and simulated driving behavior.
• Define test coverage requirements and build comprehensive test suites.
• Develop acceptance criteria through collaboration with Product, Safety, and AV Engineering teams.
• Analyze test results and report findings to Release and Autonomy Engineering stakeholders.
• Identify data, simulation, and evaluation team dependencies to enable timely, scalable, and automated validation execution.
• Collaborate closely with Product, Architecture, Data, Simulation, and Autonomy leads to design and implement comprehensive yet efficient test strategies.

Pay

The reasonably estimated salary for this role ranges from $276,100-$303,000, plus a competitive equity package. Actual compensation is based on the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience.

Schedule

This is a full-time role based in our office in Sunnyvale, CA. At Wayve we want the best of all worlds so we operate a hybrid working policy that combines time together in our offices and workshops to fuel innovation, culture, relationships and learning, and time spent working from home.