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.
DATA ENGINEER
🔐 About our Security Team
As Wayve’s security program grows, we need a scalable way to measure control effectiveness, automate evidence collection and provide continuous visibility into our security posture.
As a Data Engineer, you’ll join the Security team and build the data and automation capabilities that underpin our security program. You’ll work across Security to design scalable data pipelines, data models, integrations and automations that transform security data into actionable insights. Your work will improve operational decision-making, reduce manual effort and strengthen our ability to support customer, auditor and regulatory commitments.
This is an opportunity to build Wayve’s security analytics capability from the ground up, defining the architecture, data models and automations that become the foundation for how we measure and improve security.
🧠 Your day-to-day
You’ll help make security governance continuous by partnering with Security Engineering, IT and Engineering teams to automate evidence collection, measure control effectiveness and establish the foundations of a data-driven security program.
You’ll build and maintain security data pipelines, integrate information from cloud, identity, engineering and security platforms, and develop analytics and visualisations that make our security posture easier to understand and act on. You’ll also identify opportunities to replace repetitive manual processes with scalable engineering solutions.
This role is well suited to someone motivated by automation who believes security data should be continuously available, reliable and actionable.
🧩 What you’ll be working on:
- Designing, building and maintaining scalable data pipelines that collect, transform and enrich security data from systems across Wayve.
- Integrating data from identity, cloud, engineering and security platforms to create a unified view of Wayve’s security posture.
- Building robust data models that provide high-fidelity datasets for security analytics, operational reporting and measuring control effectiveness.
- Designing analytics products and visualisations that provide meaningful insights into the health, maturity and performance of the security program.
- Ensuring data quality, lineage, reliability, observability and maintainability across our security analytics platform.
- Building automated evidence-collection capabilities that reduce manual effort across governance, customer assurance and security operations.
- Developing analytics that support continuous control monitoring and demonstrate control effectiveness through measurable outcomes.
- Partnering with stakeholders across Security to translate security controls into measurable, automated indicators where practical.
- Designing and implementing automations that replace repetitive operational processes with scalable engineering solutions.
- Partnering with subject-matter experts to develop meaningful KPIs and metrics that help Security understand performance, risk, trends and operational health.
- Working with stakeholders across Security to understand analytical requirements and translate them into scalable technical solutions.
- Continuously improving how security data is collected, modeled and consumed across the organization.
During your first year, you’ll establish the foundations of Wayve’s security analytics and automation capability, including continuous security data pipelines, automated evidence collection for selected key controls, meaningful security KPIs and reusable data products. Your work will help move the Security program from periodic assessment toward continuous measurement and assurance.
🙌 You should apply if:
- You have experience designing and operating reliable data platforms or analytics engineering solutions in production environments.
- You have experience building production-quality data pipelines and automation using Python, SQL or similar technologies.
- You have experience modeling data for analytical use cases.
- You have a strong understanding of modern data engineering practices, including data modeling, ETL/ELT, API integrations, data quality and observability.
- You have experience working in cloud-native environments and integrating data from cloud platforms and SaaS sources.
- You have experience building integrations and automation using APIs rather than relying solely on out-of-the-box platform capabilities.
- You bring strong analytical and problem-solving skills and can translate complex technical data into actionable insights.
- You have experience designing dashboards and metrics that support operational or business decision-making.
- You have excellent communication skills and can collaborate effectively across Security, Engineering and other technical teams.
- Experience working within cybersecurity, security engineering or security governance is a plus.
- Awareness of security frameworks such as TISAX, ISO 27001 and NIST CSF is a plus.
- Experience measuring control effectiveness, building security metrics or implementing continuous assurance capabilities is a plus.
- Familiarity with security telemetry, identity systems, cloud platforms, endpoint security or vulnerability-management tooling is a plus.
🌱 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.
More about Wayve:
🚀 Wayve is building the leading AI platform for autonomous driving. We are pioneering an end to end AI approach that enables vehicles to learn directly from real world experience, developing the ability to adapt, generalise and improve at scale. Instead of relying on hand coded rules or pre mapped environments, our AI Driver learns to drive by understanding the world around it. The result is technology that navigates complex urban environments with intelligence, precision and natural flow, unlocking meaningful advances in both safety and efficiency. We believe autonomy represents a once in a generation transformation in how people and goods move, comparable to the shift from horses to cars, and from human driven vehicles to intelligent machines.
Our ambition is to make autonomy universal. Wayve’s mapless and hardware agnostic AI platform integrates with global OEM partners, enabling continuous software evolution and unlocking advanced levels of automation from L2 plus through to L4 as our core AI model scales. In a race increasingly defined by intelligence and real world learning, Wayve is taking a distinct approach, building a generalisable driving intelligence that can power any vehicle, anywhere. By combining embodied AI with scalable deployment, we are creating technology that can be shaped to each OEM brand and driver experience, accelerating the transition to a safer, more intelligent future of mobility.
How we work 💻 – Locations & Flexible Working:
This is a full-time role based in Sunnyvale, CA (hybrid). The reasonably estimated salary range for this role is $186,100–$243,300, plus a competitive equity package. Actual compensation is based on the candidate’s skills, qualifications and experience.
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 and workshops with focused time working remotely. We also operate core working hours, allowing you to determine the schedule that works best for you and your team.
🔍 The Interview Process:
Our process is clear and respectful of your time:
- Initial call / recruiter screen (30 mins)
- Competency interviews (Hiring Manager Interview) (45 mins)
- Deep-dive interviews (Technical Interviews) (1.5 hrs)
- Final interview (30 mins)
We’ll always explain the format and work around your availability.
What’s in it for you:
💰 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.
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