Staff Embedded Security Engineer

Wayve·Sunnyvale, California USA·Remote·Posted 5 October 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 Vehicle Software Engineering teams build the onboard software and connected services that make our development fleet safe, secure, reliable, and ready for real-world autonomous-driving work. This role sits across Robot Software, Reliability Engineering, Fleet Tools, Onboard Test Automation and the wider Security organization, helping protect everything from boot and operating-system layers through vehicle applications, data offload, and vehicle-to-backend communications. As a Staff Embedded Security Engineer, you’ll be a hands-on security partner to embedded software teams. You’ll identify risks, guide penetration-testing work, design practical controls, and help engineers make secure architecture decisions throughout development. 🧠 Your day-to-day - Design and develop security controls in real-time…

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