# Engineering Manager, App SW - Embedded

**Company**: Wayve
**Location**: Sunnyvale, California
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $276,100 - $293,750
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Automotive

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## Description

We build embodied intelligence that moves real vehicles safely, and the ecosystem a billion machines will run on in the future. Every role here plugs into that.

## About our Application Software Team

Our Application Software US team brings Wayve's autonomous driving technology onto customer vehicle platforms, driving localisation and advancing our capabilities for the US market. Working at the intersection of our AI software stack, embedded systems and automotive hardware, the team enables reliable performance across diverse systems-on-chip (SoCs) and operating systems.

## Responsibilities

- Build and lead an engineering team in the US, hiring and mentoring top talent while providing hands-on technical leadership.

- Lead software bring-up on customer hardware platforms, such as NVIDIA DRIVE and Qualcomm Ride, including porting and configuring Linux, QNX and Adaptive AUTOSAR environments.

- Validate drivers, middleware and boot-time configurations, partnering with OEM and Tier 1 teams to resolve hardware-specific integration issues.

- Collaborate with Verification & Release teams to integrate hardware into CI/CD, hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) and test infrastructure, automating setup, flashing, health checks and test execution.

## Requirements

- 8+ years of experience in embedded or automotive software development, ideally with hands-on platform bring-up experience, and strong proficiency in C/C++, Bash and Python.

- Demonstrated ability to lead and grow high-performing engineering teams, ideally in geographically distributed or independent settings.

- Deep knowledge of embedded Linux, including Yocto, systemd, bootloaders and device trees, plus familiarity with configuring and debugging QNX and Adaptive AUTOSAR on target hardware.

- Experience bringing up automotive-grade SoCs, such as NVIDIA Orin, Qualcomm SA8295/SA8650, Renesas or TI, and comfort with hardware debuggers, flashing tools, serial consoles, BSPs and protocols including CAN, Ethernet, PCIe, SPI and I2C.

## Benefits

- Salaries benchmarked against the market annually

- Meaningful equity, sharing in the ownership and long-term success of Wayve

- Relocation support and visa sponsorship where applicable

- 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

## Skills

### Required
- C/C++
- Bash
- Python
- embedded Linux
- Yocto
- systemd
- bootloaders
- device trees
- QNX
- Adaptive AUTOSAR
- NVIDIA Orin
- Qualcomm SA8295/SA8650
- Renesas
- TI
- CAN
- Ethernet
- PCIe
- SPI
- I2C

### Nice to have
- automotive verification environments
- HIL systems
- Vector toolchains
- Docker
- Jenkins
- Git
- JFrog Artifactory
- safety-critical development
- ISO 26262

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