Solutions Architect
The Solutions Architect at Wayve plays a pivotal role in integrating the company's autonomous driving technology with automotive OEM vehicle platforms. This position focuses on defining and managing the technical architecture at the interface between Wayve's AI Driver software and OEM or Tier 1 vehicle systems, ensuring seamless and efficient integration. Wayve, founded in 2017, is a leader in Embodied AI technology, developing advanced AI software and foundation models that enable vehicles to perceive, understand, and navigate complex environments, thereby enhancing the usability and safety of automated driving systems.
Key responsibilities include defining and managing the technical architecture for customer vehicle integration, focusing on the interface between Wayve software and OEM or Tier 1 vehicle systems. The role involves collaborating with Product Management to translate product requirements and customer program needs into actionable technical specifications. Additionally, the Solutions Architect will define and document integration boundaries with OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers, ensuring clear ownership and interface contracts. The position also requires working closely with Software Architects to assess technical feasibility and coordinating with Validation Engineers to define integration test requirements. Developing and maintaining program-facing technical documentation, supporting customer program planning, and participating in OEM and Tier 1 technical discussions are also integral parts of the role.
The ideal candidate should have experience in defining or contributing to technical architecture for ADAS, autonomous driving, embedded software, or vehicle systems, especially at the software–vehicle interface. They should possess the ability to define clear technical boundaries, ownership models, assumptions, dependencies, and interface contracts between internal software and external vehicle systems. A good understanding of vehicle electronics, embedded software constraints, ECU integration, real-time execution, timing, diagnostics, and production vehicle software environments is essential. Knowledge of automotive communication protocols and architectures, such as CAN, FlexRay, Automotive Ethernet, SOME/IP, AUTOSAR, or equivalent, is also required. Experience working with, or integrating systems for, automotive OEMs or Tier 1 suppliers is highly desirable.
Wayve offers a dynamic and inclusive work environment where contributions are valued, and diversity is embraced. The company fosters a culture of innovation, continuous learning, and collaboration, providing employees with opportunities to work on groundbreaking solutions in the field of autonomous driving. Joining Wayve means being part of a team that is committed to creating autonomy that propels the world forward, with intelligent, mapless, and hardware-agnostic AI products designed for automakers.