# Control Engineer

**Company**: Wayve
**Location**: Leonberg
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Automotive

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## Description

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

We're seeking an exceptional Control Engineer to join our Germany-based team within the Application Engineering org, focused on localising and advancing Wayve's autonomous driving technology for the German market.

Your day-to-day: You'll play a pivotal role in integrating, validating, and optimising our MPC-based trajectory controller and AI software stack on new vehicle platforms ensuring safe, reliable, and high-performance driving in diverse real-world conditions.

Responsibilities:

- Integrate and validate Wayve's AI software stack and MPC-based trajectory controller on customer hardware and vehicle platforms.

- Maintain and enhance the controller (coupled with ML-driven trajectory generation) to improve performance, stability, and reliability across different vehicles and environments.

- Establish and advance control and integration methods for ML-coupled systems, ensuring robustness and scalability across operational domains.

- Test and optimise system behaviour in challenging driving scenarios , from highways to urban settings and adverse weather conditions.

- Develop and refine simulation and evaluation pipelines to guarantee real-world optimality and control quality.

- Collaborate with cross-functional teams (Verification, Release, OEM partners) to diagnose and resolve integration and performance issues.

Requirements:

- Strong theoretical knowledge of control theory, optimisation, model-predictive control, state estimation and numerical methods.

- Practical experience in developing and tuning control systems for physical systems, both in simulation and in the real world.

- Experience productionising and scaling systems including real-time controllers and monitoring their performance at scale.

- Strong C++ and Python.

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
- control theory
- optimisation
- model-predictive control
- state estimation
- numerical methods
- C++
- Python

### Nice to have
- Experience with control, dynamics and modelling of road vehicles

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