Engineering Manager, Runtime Platform, Robot Software

• Join Wayve as Engineering Manager for the Runtime Platform team, working hybrid from London. • Lead a growing team that is becoming a dedicated function behind Wayve’s onboard AI Driver. • Own the application frameworks, middleware, performance capabilities and observability that other onboard components depend on. • Make people leadership your first priority while setting technical direction across latency, real-time scheduling and middleware. • Help scale the AI Driver across new vehicles, OEM programmes and other embodiments. • Choose your own schedule within core working hours.

• Bring a strong track record of leading, growing and retaining a high-performing software or systems team. • Show experience hiring, coaching, giving feedback, managing performance and supporting career development. • Own a team roadmap and deliver through others, including planning, prioritisation and resourcing. • Bring hands-on experience architecting embedded software shipped in a physical product to real customers. • Understand high-performance, low-latency embedded C++ well enough to earn the trust of senior systems engineers. • Understand profiling, benchmarking, latency, throughput, memory-bandwidth analysis and real-time scheduling on embedded Linux. • Know middleware for high-throughput, real-time or robotics systems and the trade-offs across vendors. • Set direction and deliver through influence across multiple stakeholder teams.

• Bring experience in automotive, robotics or another safety-relevant, real-time domain. • Show experience with QNX, a microkernel architecture or another real-time operating system. • Use profiling tools such as pprof/gperftools, perf, Nsight or NVLumo. • Work with observability platforms such as OpenTelemetry, Grafana or Datadog. • Bring experience with NVIDIA Orin or Thor compute platforms. • Show experience with Qualcomm compute platforms.

• Lead and develop the team through one-to-ones, clear expectations, regular feedback and career development. • Own hiring and onboarding, and shape the team’s culture and ways of working. • Staff committed programmes, align the roadmap with resources and hold the team accountable for delivery. • Set technical direction and own roadmap milestones with technical leads and stakeholders. • Guide work across system design, application frameworks, middleware, IPC, performance and observability. • Support new vehicle platforms through incremental development while minimising performance degradation. • Maintain strong continuous integration, hardware-in-the-loop testing and quality gates. • Partner with Vehicle Software, model development, hardware and OEM programme teams. • Surface risks and dependencies early and act as the team’s escalation point.

Wayve is one of the most exciting AI companies in the UK right now. They are tackling one of the hardest problems in technology, teaching machines to drive, and they are doing it with an approach that the rest of the industry is now converging towards. Backed by SoftBank, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Uber, Mercedes-Benz, Nissan, and Stellantis, Wayve has raised $2.8 billion in total funding and reached a valuation of $8.6 billion. With over 1,000 employees across London, Silicon Valley, Vancouver, Leonberg, Herzliya, and Tokyo, Wayve is scaling fast while keeping its London HQ at the centre. What stands out on Glassdoor (4.4/5 from 112+ reviews) is how consistently employees praise the culture, the calibre of colleagues, and the quality of the technical work. People describe it as some of the most interesting work of their careers. Wayve also offers an on-site chef, private healthcare, competitive pay with equity, and a genuine learning environment where you work alongside world-class ML researchers and engineers. That said, some reviews flag that the pace can be intense and that working across global time zones can stretch working hours. If you are an engineer, researcher, or operator who wants to work on genuinely frontier technology with real-world impact, and you thrive in fast-paced, mission-driven environments, Wayve is a rare opportunity.

• Earn a salary benchmarked against the market every year. • Receive meaningful equity in Wayve’s long-term success. • Get relocation support and visa sponsorship where applicable. • Work hybrid with core hours and hands-on time in vehicle workshops and labs. • Use a learning and development budget for training and conferences. • Receive health and dental insurance, a pension and access to therapists. • Enjoy enhanced maternity and paternity leave, wellbeing partnerships and team socials.

Wayve is building an AI platform for autonomous driving, using an end-to-end approach where vehicles learn directly from real-world experience instead of hand-coded rules or pre-mapped environments. Its mapless, hardware-agnostic AI Driver integrates with global OEM partners and supports automation from L2+ through to L4. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in London, Wayve also has hubs in Sunnyvale, Yokohama, Herzliya, Vancouver and Leonberg.