# Principal Software Architect

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. About our Product Architecture and Safety Teams Our Product Architecture and Safety teams connect Wayve’s core AI Driver with the vehicle platforms that bring autonomous driving technology to customers. Working across Engineering, Product, Safety, Validation and customer programs, we define how our software integrates with OEM and Tier 1 systems, supporting safe, reliable deployment while maintaining a consistent core product architecture. Your day-to-day As a Principal Software Architect, you’ll lead the technical architecture for integrating Wayve’s autonomous driving technology with automotive OEM vehicle platforms. You’ll work at the boundary between our core AI Driver and external vehicle systems, translating product ambitions and customer needs into clear interfaces, requirements and technical decisions. Your work will span high-level architecture and impleme

- **Id**: 4095715
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/wayve-principal-software-architect>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: London, United Kingdom, Herzliya, Israel, Germany
- **Countries**: GB, IL, DE
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 12
- **Visa sponsorship**: yes
- **Relocation package**: yes
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-11T18:45:40Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-11
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T21:04:20Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 9248
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- **Benefits**: Equity, Flexible schedule, Health insurance, Hybrid work
- **Relocation offered**: yes
- **Industries**: Machine Learning, Autonomous Driving

## Company

- **Id**: 55
- **Name**: Wayve
- **Domain**: wayve.ai
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/wayve>
- **Size band**: 501-1000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

## Technologies

- **Embodied AI** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 12
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **Germany** — Iso: DE; Kind: country
- **United Kingdom** — Iso: GB; Kind: country
- **Israel** — Iso: IL; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-11T21:04:20Z

## Visa

- Country: GB; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 47; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Licensed UK visa sponsor (Skilled Worker); Route: Skilled Worker

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 49
- **Reasons**: conf:3, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T00:17:27Z

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