Principal System Architect

Sunnyvale, California USA · Remotefull timeRemote

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senior

$348k–$458k

H1B: yes

Wayve Principal System Architect at Wayve owns end-to-end system architecture for AI Driver systems, leading technical discussions with OEMs and partners. The role defines ECU and sensor requirements and supports integration, bring-up, and debugging of complex safety-relevant embedded systems.

Responsibilities

Own end-to-end system architecture, interface contracts, assumptions of use and decision records.
Lead technical discussions with OEMs, Tier 1s and partners, aligning internal architecture owners around a common direction.
Define ECU and sensor requirements, guide system engineers and support integration planning, bring-up, triage and system-level debugging on vehicles and HiL/ViL benches.
Translate use cases, ODD and operational constraints into reusable product, system and integration architecture.
Define sensor and compute topology, vehicle interfaces, safety mechanisms, redundancy, fallback and minimal-risk manoeuvre assumptions with safety engineering.
Define on-board/off-board architecture for connectivity, remote assistance and operation, and fleet operations, including latency, availability and Wayve/OEM/operator ownership.
Distinguish core product changes from partner-specific integration so deployment needs strengthen one common architecture.
Strong experience in system architecture, systems engineering or solution architecture for ADAS / AD, robotics or complex safety-relevant embedded systems.
Broad understanding across system and vehicle-level architecture, sensors, compute and hardware, embedded software, vehicle integration and safety.
Experience defining and owning product or integration architecture for complex, cross-functional systems end-to-end.
Ability to translate high-level product or deployment goals into concrete architectural requirements and trade-offs.

Qualification

Strong written and verbal communicationExperience with L3 eyes-offFamiliarity with automotive middlewareExperience with vehicle connectivity

Required

Experience working across multiple technical domains and aligning different engineering stakeholders.
Experience leading technical discussions with OEMs, Tier 1s or other external partners.
Working knowledge of ISO 26262 and ISO 21448 (SOTIF) and how they shape system architecture.
Strong written and verbal communication, including architecture documents that others build from.
Hands-on enough to support technical problem-solving, bring-up and integration trade-offs in practice.
Experience with L3 eyes-off, L4 or robotaxi systems, including fail-operational and redundancy concepts.
Experience with assisted driving (L0–L2+) functions and their system requirements.
Experience with AI- or ML-based driving systems and their deployment on embedded platforms.
Familiarity with automotive middleware, real-time operating systems, Linux and embedded platform integration.
Experience with vehicle connectivity, remote assistance, remote operation / teleoperation, fleet operations, HMI or other robotaxi application-layer integration.
Experience bridging internal product architecture and external customer integration.