Triage Automation Engineer

About us   

Founded in 2017, Wayve is the leading developer of Embodied AI technology.  Our advanced AI software and foundation models enable vehicles to perceive, understand, and navigate any complex environment, enhancing the usability and safety of automated driving systems.

Our vision is to create autonomy that propels the world forward.  Our intelligent, mapless, and hardware-agnostic AI products are designed for automakers, accelerating the transition from assisted to automated driving. 

In our fast-paced environment big problems ignite us—we embrace uncertainty, leaning into complex challenges to unlock groundbreaking solutions. We aim high and stay humble in our pursuit of excellence, constantly learning and evolving as we pave the way for a smarter, safer future.

At Wayve, your contributions matter.  We value diversity, embrace new perspectives, and foster an inclusive work environment; we back each other to deliver impact.  

Make Wayve the experience that defines your career!  

The role 

As a Triage Automation Engineer at Wayve, you'll play a key role in scaling our Triage and Detectives workflow through process improvement, tooling, and automation. You'll partner with Triage Specialists and Detective Engineers to turn repeated, manual analysis into reliable, productised automation, including triage bots, behavioural classifiers, and workflow tooling. That reduces manual load and speeds up how quickly we identify, understand, and resolve issues across our test and on-road fleets.

This is a highly collaborative, detail-oriented role with a direct impact on the safety and efficiency of Wayve's development pipeline.

Key responsibilities:

• Document and measure existing Triage and Detective workflows to identify opportunities for automation and process improvement
• Prioritise improvements based on cost, benefit, impact, and feasibility
• Partner with Detective Engineers to integrate their scripts and tools into scalable, productised workflows
• Work with development, ML, and AI teams to deliver the tooling improvements Triage needs
• Build automation pipelines — including triage bots and behavioural classifiers — that reduce manual load on Triage Specialists
• Validate automation changes and outputs, including the accuracy and reliability of classifications and suggested root causes
• Document newly implemented automations: what they do, how they work, how to use them, known limitations, and expected outputs
• Measure and report on triage quality and throughput to track the impact of automation
• Collaborate with senior management and cross-functional stakeholders to shape the roadmap for business-critical automation
• Willingness to travel domestically and internationally (including trips to our London office)

About you  

In order to set you up for success as a Triage Automation Engineer at Wayve, we’re looking for the following skills and experience.  

Essential 

• 3+ years of experience working with complex systems, ideally within robotics or autonomous vehicles
• Strong scripting and analytical skills (e.g. Python, SQL, Bash/Shell)
• Hands-on experience operating in a remote Linux environment
• Experience building or maintaining data pipelines or notebooks (e.g. Databricks, Jupyter)
• Great communication skills, able to explain complex technical problems to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Expertise using issue tracking and configuration management tools such as Jira, Confluence, and Bitbucket/GitLab
• Comfort with ambiguity — able to measure an existing workflow, identify where automation adds value, and scope a sensible solution

Desirable 

• Experience with web development languages (e.g. HTML, CSS, React, Java) for building internal tooling
• Practical experience with machine learning or classification models (e.g. PyTorch)
• Experience with cloud services (ideally Microsoft Azure)
• Passion for taking research ideas to production
• Track record of promoting statistical rigour and experimental best practice
• Experience working in a fast-moving tech company or startup

This is a full-time role based in our office in Sunnyvale.  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. The reasonably estimated salary for this role ranges from $144,500–$183,200, plus a competitive equity package. Actual compensation is based on the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience.

Wayve is committed to creating an inclusive interview experience. If you require any accommodations or adjustments to participate fully in our interview process, please let us know.

We understand that everyone has a unique set of skills and experiences and that not everyone will meet all of the requirements listed above. If you’re passionate about self-driving cars and think you have what it takes to make a positive impact on the world, we encourage you to apply.

At Wayve we're committed to creating a diverse, fair and respectful culture that is inclusive of everyone based on their unique skills and perspectives, and regardless of sex, race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, pregnancy or related condition  (including breastfeeding) or any other basis as protected by applicable law.  

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DISCLAIMER: We will not ask about marriage or pregnancy, care responsibilities or disabilities in any of our job adverts or interviews. However, we do look to capture information about care responsibilities, and disabilities among other diversity information as part of an optional DEI Monitoring form to help us identify areas of improvement in our hiring process and ensure that the process is inclusive and non-discriminatory.