Platform Engineer, AI Enablement

London, United KingdomVehicle SW EngineeringFullTime

first seen Oct 5, 2026posted Oct 5, 2026

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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 Engineering Teams Wayve’s AI Enablement team builds the shared platforms that help people across the company use language models and AI agents safely, reliably, and cost-effectively. As an early member of this platform team, you’ll help shape both the technical foundations and the standards for how AI-powered tools are built and operated across Wayve. 🧠 Your day-to-day You’ll design, build, and operate infrastructure for model access, agent runtimes, and observability. You’ll take projects from initial problem definition through technical design, deployment, and ongoing operation, partnering closely with security, IT, and engineering teams. You’ll also support teams adopting the platform by troubleshooting issues, documenting reusable patterns, and helping people understand what’s possible with the tools available. 🧩 What you’ll be working on A governed, production-ready access layer for language models, including routing, authentication, cost controls, and auditability. Secure infrastructure and reusable tooling for running agentic workflows in production. Observability covering platform usage, cost, reliability, and performance. Governance and safety controls that make AI use secure, compliant, and auditable. Shared primitives, standards, and best practices that enable teams to build and deploy agents without creating one-off infrastructure. Reliable, scalable deployments using cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, and infrastructure-as-code. 🙌 You should apply if You have strong software engineering experience building APIs, services, or developer tooling. You’ve built or operated platforms and infrastructure used by other engineering teams. You have hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, and infrastructure-as-code. You’re familiar with LLM APIs and the surrounding ecosystem, such as model gateways, agent frameworks, MCP, or RAG. You understand production observability, including metrics, tracing, and logging. You take a security-conscious approach to authentication, authorization, governance, and auditability. You’re comfortable taking ownership in an ambiguous, fast-moving environment and can communicate clearly through documentation and collaboration. 🌱 Not ticking every box? That’s totally okay! If you’re passionate about autonomy and keen to learn, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every requirement.

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How we work 💻- Locations & Flexible Working:

Our main hubs are in London, Sunnyvale, Yokohama, Herzliya, Vancouver and Leonberg. We operate a hybrid working model that combines in-person collaboration in our dedicated office spaces with focused time working remotely. This gives our teams the connection and energy of working together, alongside the flexibility to do their best work in a way that fits their lives.

Our process is clear and respectful of your time:

Recruiter screen Competency Interviews Deep-dive technical interviews Final interview : mission & values alignment We’ll always explain the format and work around your availability.

What’s in it for you (Location dependant):

💰 Salaries benchmarked against the market annually 📈 Meaningful equity, sharing in the ownership and long term success of Wayve ✈️ Relocation support and visa sponsorship where applicable ✅ Hybrid working, core hours and the chance to work hands on in vehicle workshops and labs 📚 Learning and development budgets with support for training, conferences and growth 🩺 Comprehensive benefits including health insurance, dental, enhanced maternity and paternity leave, retirement or pension where applicable, access to therapists, wellbeing partnerships, team socials and more A quick, honest note before you apply. Wayve is not a mature, fully-structured place with the playbook already written. Much of how we work is still being written, and if you join, you’ll help write it. That suits people who want real ownership more than people who need a settled structure from day one. If that sounds like the kind of problem you want to spend your time on, we’d really like to hear from you. At Wayve we're committed to creating a diverse, fair and respectful culture that is inclusive of everyone based on their unique skills and perspectives, and regardless of sex, race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding) or any other basis as protected by applicable law. For more information visit Careers at Wayve. To learn more about what drives us, visit Values at Wayve DISCLAIMER: We will not ask about marriage or pregnancy, care responsibilities or disabilities in any of our job adverts or interviews. However, we do look to capture information about care responsibilities, and disabilities among other diversity information as part of an optional DEI Monitoring form to help us identify areas of improvement in our hiring process and ensure that the process is inclusive and non-discriminatory.