# Controls Engineeer at Wayve

- Company: Wayve
- What the company does: Backed by SoftBank VF and Air Street.
- Company website: https://wayve.ai/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: Sunnyvale
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $210K to $267K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-31
- Apply by: 2026-10-15
- Apply: https://wayve.firststage.co/jobs?gh_jid=8761759002
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/wayve-controls-engineeer/

## About the role

In this role you will develop and improve the vehicle trajectory and motion controllers that translate the Wayve AI Driver outputs into safe, smooth and robust vehicle motion across different vehicle platforms and applications (both ADAS and AV). You’ll tackle cutting-edge challenges: developing principled controls approaches, implementing real time systems, testing in complex scenarios and refining our evaluation pipelines.

## What they're looking for

- Strong fundamentals in control theory, with depth in one or more of optimization, model-predictive control, numerical methods or dynamical systems
- Practical experience developing, tuning and validating control or motion systems on real world physical systems
- Strong software engineering skills, with experience building reliable production-quality systems in C++
- Experience with latency-sensitive or real-time software
- Ability to reason about and debug system-level behaviour in complex robotic systems across software and hardware
- Applied experience with model predictive control, trajectory optimization, motion planning etc

Tags: AV Engineering