Infrastructure Engineer - Defence in London

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.

About our Infrastructure Teams: Wayve's Infrastructure Engineering teams build and operate the secure, reliable foundations that enable our engineers and researchers to develop and test Embodied AI at scale. In this role, you'll be the first infrastructure-focused hire in our Tel Aviv office, working closely with our central networking team in London and our IT and cloud infrastructure teams across the UK, US and Japan.

Your day-to-day: You'll take local ownership of Tel Aviv's network and site infrastructure—from resolving outages and improving performance to supporting office growth and new deployments. You'll collaborate with global teams to maintain consistent configuration, security and observability standards, while providing pragmatic, hands-on infrastructure and IT support to local colleagues.

What you'll be working on:

• Designing, deploying and maintaining wired and wireless networks, VLANs, VPNs, routing and firewall policies.
• Building secure, high-bandwidth and resilient infrastructure for AI development and autonomous vehicle testing.
• Improving automation and repeatability through Terraform, Ansible, Python and Bash.
• Supporting hybrid connectivity between on-premises infrastructure and cloud environments.
• Strengthening monitoring, documentation and incident response across our global sites.
• Helping establish scalable infrastructure standards that can be reused as Wayve continues to grow.

You should apply if:

• You have 5+ years of experience in infrastructure, networking, DevOps or a related role.
• You have strong networking fundamentals across TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS, routing, switching, VPNs and firewalls.
• You have hands-on experience with Linux systems administration and enterprise networking platforms such as Juniper, Cisco or MikroTik.
• You can automate infrastructure using Bash or Python and tools such as Terraform and Ansible.
• You have worked with hybrid on-premises and cloud environments; You understand infrastructure security, including network segmentation, endpoint controls, certificate management and secure access.

More about Wayve: Wayve is building the leading AI platform for autonomous driving. We are pioneering an end to end AI approach that enables vehicles to learn directly from real world experience, developing the ability to adapt, generalise and improve at scale. Instead of relying on hand coded rules or pre mapped environments, our AI Driver learns to drive by understanding the world around it. The result is technology that navigates complex urban environments with intelligence, precision and natural flow, unlocking meaningful advances in both safety and efficiency.

How we work: Our main hubs are in London, Sunnyvale, Yokohama, Herzliya, Vancouver and Leonberg. We operate a hybrid working model that combines in-person collaboration in our dedicated office spaces with focused time working remotely. This gives our teams the connection and energy of working together, alongside the flexibility to do their best work in a way that fits their lives.

A quick, honest note before you apply: Much of how we work is still being written, and if you join, you'll help write it. 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.