Wayve
Engineering Manager, App SW - Embedded
Detroit, Michigan USA · Senior · Full-time
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About the role
- This is a unique opportunity to shape our AV capabilities in the US from the ground up.
Responsibilities
- Lead software bring-up on customer hardware platforms (e.g. NVIDIA Drive, Qualcomm Ride).
- Build and lead an engineering team in the US, hiring and mentoring top talent.
- Validate integration of drivers, middleware, and boot-time configurations.
- Collaborate with Verification & Release teams to integrate hardware into CI/CD, HIL, and test infrastructure.
- Partner with OEM and Tier 1 teams to resolve hardware-specific integration issues.
- Demonstrated ability to lead and grow high-performing engineering teams, ideally in geographically distributed or independent settings.
- Comfortable working with hardware debuggers, flashing tools, serial consoles, and board support packages (BSPs).
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in embedded or automotive software development, ideally with hands-on platform bring-up experience.
- Strong proficiency in C/C++, Bash, and Python.
- Experience with bring-up on automotive-grade SoCs (e.g., NVIDIA Orin, Qualcomm SA8295/SA8650, Renesas, TI).
Compensation
- This role is a full-time role based in Detroit or Sunnyvale, CA (hybrid) and the reasonably estimated salary for this role ranges from $252,500 to $298,200, plus a competitive equity package.
Benefits
- Automate setup, flashing, health checks, and test execution on target hardware.
Company info
- ABOUT YOU In order to set you up for success at Wayve, we're looking for the following skills and experience.
- 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.
- In order to set you up for success at Wayve, we're looking for the following skills and experience.
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