Partner Integration Engineer - AI Portal

About us Founded in 2017, Wayve is the leading developer of Embodied AI technology.  Our advanced AI software and foundation models enable vehicles to perceive, understand, and navigate any complex environment, enhancing the usability and safety of automated driving systems. Our vision is to create autonomy that propels the world forward.  Our intelligent, mapless, and hardware-agnostic AI products are designed for automakers, accelerating the transition from assisted to automated driving. In our fast-paced environment big problems ignite us—we embrace uncertainty, leaning into complex challenges to unlock groundbreaking solutions. We aim high and stay humble in our pursuit of excellence, constantly learning and evolving as we pave the way for a smarter, safer future. At Wayve, your contributions matter.  We value diversity, embrace new perspectives, and foster an inclusive work environment; we back each other to deliver impact. Make Wayve the experience that defines your career! About the Team Portal is the platform that connects Wayve to the outside world. The Portal team acts as the airlock between Wayve and its external partners: handling data flows, system integrations and direct use by OEMs. We operate as a startup within a scale-up: small, high-ownership, and working at the frontier of AV commercialisation. The role This is a partner-facing engineering role. You'll work directly with Wayve's OEM partners; building the solutions they need and resolving technical issues as they arise. You will split your time between building partner-facing product features, developing integrations between systems, improving observability and reliability, and resolving complex production issues when they arise. This role requires significant autonomy. You'll often be the sole Wayve Portal representative resolving partner issues during UK off-hours, operating with a high degree of independence. Key responsibilities: Build software at the interface of OEM and Wayve systems APIs, cross-cloud integrations, and user-interfaces. Customer-obsessed: work directly with our OEM partners to understand their needs and build impactful solutions with the Portal team. Triage and resolve technical issues with Portal; whether reported by customers or detected through internal monitoring Build monitoring and alerting tooling to proactively detect, triage and resolve integration issues before they impact customers Participate in an out-of-hours on-call rotation as part of a follow-the-sun 24/7 coverage model Operate autonomously during UK off-hours; act as the primary technical point of contact for Nissan for the Portal; manage complex issues independently and work with limited team overlap About you In order to set you up for success as a Partner Integration Engineer at Wayve, we’re looking for the following skills and experience. Essential Customer-facing technical experience: solutions engineering, technical support, integration engineering or similar Backend engineering (we have Java and Python services) Experience participating in on-call or support rotation, or supporting a production system Operational Cloud Infrastructure experience (Azure preferred) Strong interpersonal and communication skills: comfortable working directly with external enterprise partners Product-minded: you think about customer problems and build solutions to fix them. High autonomy and ownership: comfortable in ambiguous, fast-changing environments Motivated by a startup within a scale-up environment: small team, big impact, enterprise partners Japanese and English fluency (essential: this is non-negotiable for the Japan role) Able to operate independently with limited UK team overlap Proven ability to manage complex partner relationships autonomously Desirable Experience building APIs for external users Frontend development experience Experience working with automotive or mobility industry partners Background in SRE, DevOps or cloud operations Experience building or operating monitoring or observability tooling Why Join Us Be at the direct commercial frontier of autonomous vehicle deployment: your work is what partners experience when they work with Wayve A chance to own e2e solutions to real customer problems: understand, build, maintain. High autonomy and ownership in a small, elite team Enterprise-grade systems, startup-level impact Competitive compensation, flexible working, and the chance to shape how Wayve's technology reaches the world This is a full-time, office-based role located in Yokohama, depending on the candidate's place of residence. At Wayve we want the best of all worlds so we operate a hybrid working policy that combines time together in our offices and workshops to fuel innovation, culture, relationships and learning, and time spent working from home. We operate core working hours so you can determine the schedule that works best for you and your team. Wayve is committed to creating an inclusive interview experience. If you require any accommodations or adjustments to participate fully in our interview process, please let us know. We understand that everyone has a unique set of skills and experiences and that not everyone will meet all of the requirements listed above. If you’re passionate about self-driving cars and think you have what it takes to make a positive impact on the world, we encourage you to apply. 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.