Platform Engineer at Wayve

Department: Vehicle SW Engineering

Location: London, England
Level: mid
Posted: Sep 9, 2026

Description

Wayve is hiring a Platform Engineer for its AI Enablement team to build and operate infrastructure for safe, reliable, and cost-effective access to language models and AI agents. The role covers runtime services, developer tooling, observability, governance and safety controls, reusable platform primitives, infrastructure automation, and support for agentic workflows across the full delivery lifecycle. The engineer will collaborate with Security, IT, and engineering teams, participate in on-call rotation, and help educate colleagues on AI platforms.

Required Skills

API development
System design
Kubernetes
Infrastructure as code
LLM APIs
Observability
Security
Model routing

Additional Information

Required Previous Experiences: 3+ years of software engineering experience building APIs, services, and developer tooling
Experience building and operating platforms or infrastructure used by other engineering teams
Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, and infrastructure as code
Experience building observability into distributed systems using metrics, tracing, and logging
Experience with authentication, authorization, and auditability
Preferred Qualifications: Experience operating an LLM gateway or model-routing layer in production, including cost controls and budget enforcement
Experience with agent orchestration frameworks or tool-calling protocols such as MCP
Exposure to AI governance, model risk management, or responsible AI practices
Experience working in an organization with a strong safety culture, ideally in autonomy, robotics, or another safety-critical field