Wayve
Senior Forensics Engineer
$210K–$238K
Sunnyvale, California USA · Hybrid · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 2, 2026
- Experience
- At least three years.
- Visa sponsorship
- Visa sponsorship where applicable.
About the job
Investigates systemic issues across Wayve’s autonomous-driving stack, establishes root causes, and helps improve vehicle safety and performance.
What you'll do
- Lead investigations into escalations, alerts, and on-road incidents; reproduce issues and determine root causes.
- Build analytical queries, dashboards, and automated workflows, and communicate findings to stakeholders.
- Work with system-owning teams to validate fixes, support release testing and new vehicle platforms, and develop investigative processes.
What they ask for
- At least three years of experience with complex systems in robotics, autonomous vehicles, or a comparable engineering environment.
- Experience designing real-world experiments to test hypotheses.
- Confident use of Python for data analysis and scripting.
- Clear technical communication and effective cross-team collaboration.
Nice to have
- Experience with machine-learning models, safety-critical systems, autonomous vehicles, robotics, automotive engineering, or fast-moving technology companies.
Pay
$209,700 – $238,250 (base salary)
Tools
Python
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