# Engineering Manager, Embedded Automotive Platforms

**Company**: Wayve
**Location**: Sunnyvale, California
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $280K - $305K
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Automotive

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## Description

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.

## About the Role

As Engineering Manager, Embedded Automotive Platforms (EAP), you'll lead and grow a US-based team responsible for foundational software used across real-world experiments and customer programmes. This is a hands-on management role: approximately 40% coding and design, and 60% leadership, coaching, and delivery through the team.

## Responsibilities

- Lead, recruit, and grow an embedded-software team in the US.

- Coach engineers, support career development, and set a high bar for engineering quality.

- Own the team roadmap, turning milestones into clear objectives and delivery plans.

- Align priorities with cross-functional stakeholders and maintain accountability for schedule and quality.

- Stay hands-on through architecture, design, code review, and implementation of critical components.

- Communicate progress, risks, and technical trade-offs across teams and time zones.

## What You'll Be Working On

- Portable core libraries and SDK-style APIs for deploying Wayve autonomy software to vehicle compute.

- Reference-platform adaptation across Linux, QNX, NVIDIA, Qualcomm, and other automotive environments.

- Production-grade platform abstractions that reduce bespoke integration work.

- Safety- and quality-conscious delivery, including FuSA-certified core libraries where applicable.

- Technical and organisational foundations that allow the EAP team to scale.

- Reliable software components used by internal teams, OEM programmes, and external partners.

## Requirements

- Experience managing and developing software engineers while owning delivery from planning through quality.

- Strong embedded-systems engineering background and can remain hands-on in C++, C, or Rust.

- Led embedded platform, core-library, or similar foundational software work.

- Experience in automotive or another safety- and quality-conscious industry.

- Understand disciplined development practices such as ASPICE, MISRA, ISO 26262, or comparable frameworks.

- Clear communication and ability to align stakeholders across functions and locations.

## Nice to Have

- Experience with Linux, QNX, build systems, AUTOSAR Adaptive, middleware/IPC, NVIDIA DRIVE, Qualcomm automotive platforms, or third-party platform delivery.

## Benefits

- Salaries benchmarked against the market annually.

- Meaningful equity, sharing in the ownership and long-term success of Wayve.

- Relocation support and visa sponsorship where applicable.

- Hybrid working, core hours, and the chance to work hands-on in vehicle workshops and labs.

- Learning and development budgets with support for training, conferences, and growth.

- Comprehensive benefits including health insurance, dental, enhanced maternity and paternity leave, retirement or pension where applicable, access to therapists, wellbeing partnerships, team socials, and more.

## Skills

### Required
- C++
- C
- Rust
- embedded-systems engineering
- ASPICE
- MISRA
- ISO 26262

### Nice to have
- Linux
- QNX
- build systems
- AUTOSAR Adaptive
- middleware/IPC
- NVIDIA DRIVE
- Qualcomm automotive platforms

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