Staff Security 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.

Summary
Join Wayve as a Staff Security Engineer, responsible for advancing the security framework of our internal platform and IT security engineering group, SPINE. This pivotal role focuses on developing enforceable and continuously improving security systems, working collaboratively with the central Security team to ensure our security strategy is effectively implemented across our endpoint, identity, and internal platform estate.

Responsibilities

• Lead endpoint and identity security systems across SPINE, ensuring continuous improvement of controls.
• Deploy and manage security tooling, automation, and infrastructure-as-code solutions for scalability.
• Identify and remediate systemic security gaps, using data to drive improvements and track security KPIs.
• Collaborate with the Security team and other stakeholders to align security measures with compliance and policy requirements.
• Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership in security across the organization

Required Skills

• Proficiency in scripting and automation (Python, Bash, PowerShell).
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code and configuration-as-policy methodologies.
• Strong Linux systems experience and background in endpoint/device management.
• Familiarity with identity and access systems, and implementation of device and access controls.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to influence technical decisions.
• Self-directed and proactive problem-solving capabilities, comfortable operating with broad scope and autonomy

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.