Senior Triage Automation Engineer

About the role

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.

Your Day-to-day

• Observe, document, and measure current Triage and Detective workflows to identify high-value automation opportunities.
• Build automation pipelines, triage bots, behavioural classifiers, and workflow tooling.
• Partner with Detective Engineers to turn one-off scripts into robust, reusable tools.
• Validate automation accuracy, reliability, suggested classifications, and root-cause outputs.
• Document each automation’s purpose, operation, expected outputs, and limitations.
• Track triage quality and throughput to demonstrate impact and guide the roadmap.
• Join regular triage and calibration sessions to stay close to the work being automated.

What You’ll Be Working on

• Business-critical tooling used by Triage Specialists and Detective Engineers every week.
• Automation that reduces manual analysis and accelerates issue identification across autonomous-vehicle fleets.
• Productised pipelines spanning Python, SQL, Bash, Linux, notebooks, cloud tooling, and issue-management systems.
• Cross-functional problems at the intersection of safety, machine learning, software engineering, and operations.

You Should Apply If

• You have 3+ years working with complex technical systems, ideally in robotics or autonomous vehicles.
• You are strong in Python, SQL, and Bash or shell scripting and comfortable in remote Linux environments.
• You have built or maintained data pipelines, notebooks, or cloud-triggered automation.
• You can take an ambiguous manual process, decide what is worth automating, and own delivery end-to-end.
• You communicate technical problems clearly and work effectively with both technical and non-technical partners.
• Experience with Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket or GitLab, Databricks or Jupyter is valuable; ML classifiers, web tooling, or Azure experience is a plus.

Additional information

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.

Our ambition is to make autonomy universal. Wayve’s mapless and hardware-agnostic AI platform integrates with global OEM partners, enabling continuous software evolution from L2+ through to L4.

How We Work - Locations & Flexible Working

This role is based in Sunnyvale and follows Wayve’s hybrid working model. The role requires regular in-office collaboration and may include domestic and international travel, including visits to London.

The Interview Process

• Initial call / recruiter screen (25 min)
• Hiring Manager Screen (30 min)
• Technical interviews covering workflow development, system design, and automation/programming
• Final interview focused on mission and values alignment (30 min)

We’ll always explain the format and work around your availability.

What’s in IT for You (Location Dependent)

• Salaries benchmarked against the market annually
• Meaningful equity
• Relocation support and visa sponsorship where applicable
• Hybrid working and access to vehicle workshops and labs
• Learning and development support
• Comprehensive location-dependent health, family, retirement, and wellbeing benefits

A quick, honest note before you apply.

• Wayve is not a mature, fully-structured place with the playbook already written.
• Much of how we work is still being written, and if you join, you’ll help write it.
• That suits people who want real ownership more than people who need a settled structure from day one.

• If that sounds like the kind of problem you want to spend your time on, we’d really like to hear from you.
• For more information visit Careers at Wayve. To learn more about what drives us, visit Values at Wayve