System Test Automation Engineer

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 Verification and Release Test Team Wayve’s Verification and Release Test team sits at the intersection of hardware, embedded software and machine learning models. Our testing spans component, system and vehicle levels, and we build novel test automation in-house to identify issues earlier in development. We pride ourselves on finding the most efficient and effective ways to deliver the most valuable results for the company. As a System Test Engineer, HIL, you’ll build robust, reusable automation and work across engineering disciplines to improve coverage, reliability and traceability. This is a hands-on delivery role with room to grow into broader areas of the system, including sensing and model-behaviour testing, as Wayve and your experience evolve. 🧠 Your day-to-day Develop automation for system functionality tests at component, integration and system levels, working across software and hardware boundaries. Lead root-cause investigations for failures identified during test campaigns, collaborating with hardware, software, infrastructure and DevOps teams to resolve issues. Analyse test results, uncover software and hardware bugs, and report findings through Jira with clear evidence to support debugging. Optimise Buildkite CI/CD-integrated test workflows for rapid, reliable and repeatable execution. Review, create and follow risk assessments to ensure all testing activities are conducted safely and responsibly. 🧩 What you’ll be working on: Independently owning the design and delivery of automated verification for a defined area of our embedded software stack, steadily raising the bar on coverage, reliability and traceability. Building open-loop and closed-loop hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) replay tests, alongside reliability and fault-injection tests, to support verification, release and debugging. Automating HIL test setups and improving test infrastructure to expand coverage, make failures easier to trace and strengthen compliance reporting. Integrating requirements, coverage and compliance workflows, including Jama, MC/DC coverage analysis and MISRA checks, and managing test artefacts through Artifactory and Azure. Developing traceability dashboards and defining KPIs and quality metrics that support data-driven validation and release decisions. 🙌 You should apply if: You have hands-on experience with system-level verification and validation in robotics, embedded software or mechatronic systems, with a track record of independently delivering test automation. You’re highly proficient in Python and have experience developing automation test frameworks using pytest. You’ve worked with HIL testing and tooling, includ