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Wayve•Autonomous Driving

Control Engineer

Location

Leonberg, Germany

Work type

Hybrid

Employment

Full Time

Experience

5-10 years

Compensation

Compensation not disclosed

Posted

3d ago

Summary and responsibilities

Role overview

Summary

As a Control Engineer at Wayve, you will integrate, validate, and optimise MPC-based trajectory controllers and AI software stacks on new vehicle platforms for the German market. This role involves enhancing controller performance, establishing robust control and integration methods for ML-coupled systems, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to resolve issues. You will ensure safe, reliable, and high-performance autonomous driving in diverse real-world conditions.

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. This is a unique opportunity to play a hands-on role in shaping our AV capabilities in Germany from the ground up.


🧠 Your day-to-day

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


This is a unique opportunity to work at the intersection of controls, systems integration, and applied machine learning, helping expand our AV capabilities across new operational domains while collaborating closely with robotics, ML, and vehicle engineering experts.


🧩 What you’ll be working on

  • 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.


🙌 You should apply if

Essential

  • 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.


Desirable

  • Experience with control, dynamics and modelling of road vehicles.

Updated 3d ago

Candidate fit

Skills and qualifications

Additional skills

Control Theory • 1+ yrs
Model-Predictive Control • 1+ yrs
Optimization • 1+ yrs
State Estimation • 1+ yrs
C++ • 1+ yrs
Python • 1+ yrs
Systems Integration • 1+ yrs
Machine Learning • 1+ yrs

Experience

5-10 years

How this role is positioned

Role classification

Job domains

Engineering

Industries

Automotive

Employment

Full Time

Contract duration

Permanent

Hiring type

Direct

Global hiring

Location specific

Offer details

Compensation and benefits

Compensation

Compensation not disclosed

VisibilityShared on listing
CurrencyUSD
PeriodYearly

Benefits and perks

Visa Sponsorship
Health Insurance
Dental Insurance

Location, schedule, and role shape

Work setup

Work conditions

Primary locationLeonberg, Germany
Work typeHybrid
Global hiringNo

Bandwidth profile

peopleMedium • 6/10
physicalMedium • 5/10
cognitiveHigh • 9/10
executionHigh • 9/10
creativityHigh • 8/10
uncertaintyMedium • 7/10
communicationMedium • 7/10

Context on the employer

Company snapshot

Company

Wayve

Team size

Growing team

Location

Leonberg, Germany

Wayve is building the leading AI platform for autonomous driving. We are pioneering an 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. 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.

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Control Engineer

Leonberg, Germany • Full Time