Staff Embedded Security Engineer

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.

The role

The security of our software is paramount to the safety of our vehicles. The onboard software for our various fleets of vehicles is critical to data gathering, model training, and demonstration of our self-driving technology. You will work with embedded software engineers to design, implement, review, and test the onboard software and connected services for our current and future platforms.

Key responsibilities:

Design and develop real-time embedded firmware and embedded Linux software to implement security controls for the system

Contribute to technical requirements, architecture, and interface design documents

Partner with the wider Wayve Security team to identify and address security issues related to our vehicle fleet

Partner with developers from throughout the organization to design and promote secure software architectures

Build, deploy, and maintain security tools, libraries, controls, and instrumentation in Wayve’s codebases

Perform code and design reviews to identify and help remediate security flaws

About you

In order to set you up for success as an Staff Embedded Security Engineer at Wayve, we’re looking for the following skills and experience.

Essential

Proven record of designing and delivering software security systems for internet-connected embedded devices

Experience incorporating hardware-based security techniques (Hardware Security modules, TrustZone, Secure Boot, etc) into a robust hardware/software system design

Sound knowledge of Cryptography fundamentals and Public Key Infrastructure

Extensive experience creating, presenting, and refining clear, compelling technical specifications from top-level system architecture documents down to low-level implementation guides and test plans

System-level (kernel/bootloader) software development experience

Significant experience with at least Python, C++, C, or Go.

Exceptional ability to communicate and collaborate with developers, non-engineering stakeholders, and leadership

Desirable

Experience with QNX or similar realtime operating systems

Experience designing, developing, and maintaining professional software

Experience with Azure, GCP, containers, secrets management systems, cryptography, popular threat modeling systems, and other contemporary security topics

Contributions to the security community (open source, published research, presentations, blog posts, etc.)

Bachelor’s degree or above in CS, Engineering, Math, Physics, or similar

This role is a full-time role based in Sunnyvale, CA (hybrid) and the reasonably estimated salary for this role ranges from $276,100 to $311,400, plus a competitive equity package. Actual compensation is based on the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience.

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.