Tech Lead / Manager - Trajectory Generation and Controls

• Lead Wayve's Controls team, an experienced and growing group responsible for delivering robust real-world vehicle motion across product platforms. • Guide a team working across controls, trajectory generation, and the interface with the Wayve AI Driver. • Combine technical leadership, team development, and delivery ownership with the opportunity to shape both near-term product impact and the longer-term evolution of the technology.

• Have experience managing or leading engineers including setting priorities, driving execution, and supporting their growth and performance. • Have experience leading technical direction for complex autonomy, robotics, or other physical AI systems, ideally in autonomous vehicles or a closely related domain. • Have experience building, shipping, and maintaining production systems, including translating product and system requirements into technical plans and execution. • Have expertise in controls, trajectory generation, motion planning, or closely related autonomy problems, including strong understanding of physical system dynamics, closed-loop behaviour, and controller design tradeoffs. • Have experience working on production systems that incorporate machine learning models, ideally in domains such as prediction, trajectory generation, planning, or control. • Have experience working across system boundaries, with the ability to consider factors across software, platform, and physical boundaries. • Have strong software engineering fundamentals with experience delivering high-quality production code and setting a high technical bar for others.

• Have experience managing engineers and growing teams. • Have experience with classical search- or optimisation-based motion planning, optimal control, MPC, or related motion-generation methods. • Have experience working in production release environments, ideally involving real hardware or multiple platforms. • Have experience with automotive-grade software development processes or safety-related standards such as ISO 26262 or SOTIF. • Have experience with Python and C++ in production autonomy or robotics systems.

• Lead and develop the Motion Controls team, providing strong people leadership, technical direction, and clear priorities for an experienced and growing group of engineers. • Own the team's technical roadmap and delivery across short and long term horizons, translating product and system needs into clear priorities, technical plans, and timely execution. • Own the interface between the Wayve AI Driver, trajectory generation, and control in a deployed autonomy system. • Provide strong technical judgement across control, trajectory generation, and adjacent ML-informed system design, holding a high bar for engineering quality and deployed system performance. • Work with key partners to align technical plans, product needs, and integration constraints in the delivery of robust deployed motion behaviour. • Shape the future direction and growth of the team to address emerging challenges at the intersection of control, AI, and real-world vehicle behaviour.

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.

• Work in a hybrid model from Wayve's London office. • Join a well-funded company backed by leading investors, founded in 2017 and pushing the boundaries of embodied AI. • Work in an inclusive environment that values diversity and embraces new perspectives.

Founded in 2017, Wayve is the leading developer of Embodied AI technology. Its 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. Wayve's intelligent, mapless, and hardware-agnostic AI products are designed for automakers, accelerating the transition from assisted to automated driving.