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full-timeSoftware Engineer - Map & Route
Wayve · London, United Kingdom
Wayve is an autonomous driving technology company developing embodied artificial intelligence that enables vehicles to navigate complex environments. As a software engineer within the Map & Route team, you will contribute to the geospatial foundations that support the company's AI driver. The role involves a full-stack approach, requiring you to build and maintain services that process global-scale road-network and navigation data. Your daily responsibilities will include designing data pipelines using PySpark and Databricks, developing route-planning applications, and integrating third-party mapping APIs like Mapbox and Google Maps. You will own your services end-to-end, handling deployment and operation on Azure and Kubernetes. This position is ideal for a hands-on engineer proficient in Python and TypeScript who has experience with large-scale data processing and cloud infrastructure. Candidates who possess a background in geospatial data, routing engines, or SQL-based analysis will find this role particularly well-suited to their skills. You will work closely with model development teams to ensure that mapping data effectively enhances the training and simulation of autonomous driving systems.
Before the detail, here's the challenge you'd help us solve. We build the embodied intelligence that moves real vehicles safely, and the ecosystem a billion machines will run on in the future. Very few people in AI can say this. Every role here, whatever the team, plugs into that. Here’s what this particular role covers. 🛠️ About our Map & Route Team Our Map & Route team sits within Wayve’s Automotive Platforms division in Vehicle Software Engineering, and builds the geospatial foundations behind our AI driver. Working with global-scale data, the team turns road-network and navigation data into reliable products used across Wayve, building geospatial services and data products to support company operations. We work with our model development, experimentation, and evaluation platforms to build an AI driver that uses maps and navigation data like an expert human driver by using map information to enhance training and evaluation of performance. We are a full-stack team owning mapping end to end, getting to touch work that is infrastructure, data engineering, data science, backend and frontend. 🧠 Your day-to-day Write full-stack services in Python and Typescript, creating novel geospatial services to solve challenging and unique problems we face in building our AI driving products. Collaborate with internal teams to understand requirements and build solutions with global geospatial data. Design and build data pipelines with PySpark and Databricks to enrich fleet data with mapping and road-network information at global scale. Build applications and datasets that support route planning and the preparation of map data for training and simulation. Integrate with navigation and mapping APIs from providers such as Mapbox, TomTom and Google Maps. Maintain, support and improve the services the team already runs. Deploy and operate your services on Azure and Kubernetes, owning them end to end. 🧩 What you’ll be working on Global-scale geospatial enrichment pipelines that tell us where we’ve driven and what the road network looks like. Route-planning applications and datasets that help our teams decide where to drive next. Map data preparation for model training and simulation. New services you’ll take from idea to production and lead end to end. 🙌 You should apply if You are a strong, hands-on Python engineer who can deliver high-quality production code at pace. You are comfortable with an AI-assisted or AI engineering workflow (ideation, planning, implementation and review). You have built and operated large-scale data pipelines using Spark or PySpark. You are comfortable writing SQL to query and analyse large datasets. You have working knowledge of cloud infrastructure and container orchestration, ideally Azure and Kubernetes, and are happy to own deployment, monitoring, and observability of your services. You enjoy taking ownership of new services and seeing them through end to end. Experience with geospatial data processing, road-network data or routing engines (e.g. OpenStreetMap, TomTom, HERE or Overture data, PostGIS, navigation APIs) would be a strong advantage. Experience with Bazel or monorepo build systems is desirable but not mandatory. Experience with workflow orchestration tools such as Flyte or Airflow would be a bonus. 🌱 Not ticking every box? That’s totally okay! If you’re passionate about autonomy and keen to learn, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every requirement. More about Wayve: 🚀 Wayve is building the leading AI platform for autonomous driving. We are pioneering an end to end AI approach that enables vehicles to learn directly from real world experience, developing the ability to adapt, generalise and improve at scale. Instead of relying on hand coded rules or pre mapped environments, our AI Driver learns to drive by understanding the world around it. The result is technology that navigates complex urban environments with intelligence, precision and natural flow, unlocking meaningful advances in both safety and efficiency. We believe autonomy represents a once in a generation transformation in how people and goods move, comparable to the shift from horses to cars, and from human driven vehicles to intelligent machines. Our ambition is to make autonomy universal. Wayve’s mapless and hardware agnostic AI platform integrates with global OEM partners, enabling continuous software evolution and unlocking advanced levels of automation from L2 plus through to L4 as our core AI model scales. In a race increasingly defined by intelligence and real world learning, Wayve is taking a distinct approach, building a generalisable driving intelligence that can power any vehicle, anywhere. By combining embodied AI with scalable deployment, we are creating technology that can be shaped to each OEM brand and driver experience, accelerating the transition to a safer, more intelligent future of mobility. How we work 💻- Locations & Flexible Working: Our main hubs are in London, Sunnyvale, Y
| Role | Software Engineer - Map & Route |
|---|---|
| Company | Wayve |
| Location | London, United Kingdom |
| Type | full-time |
| Compensation | Not disclosed |
| Deadline | Rolling |
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