Description
We build the embodied intelligence that moves real vehicles safely, and the ecosystem a billion machines will run on in the future.
You will be responsible for managing the SRE Engineering Teams that build the software bringing Wayve's autonomous-driving technology onto real vehicles.
Your Day-to-Day
- Interview, onboard and coach engineers, setting clear expectations and supporting their performance and career growth.
- Work with engineering managers and technical leads to review reliability risks, agree on ownership and prioritize the team's work.
- Stay hands-on by designing solutions, writing production code and reviewing critical changes alongside your team.
- Lead technical investigations and incident reviews, turning findings into concrete fixes and follow-up work.
- Coordinate focused projects with Vehicle Software teams, helping them improve reliability while retaining ownership of their systems.
- Review reliability metrics and roadmap progress, adjusting priorities to reflect product milestones, fleet needs and operational risk.
- Communicate technical decisions, trade-offs and results to engineering and company leaders.
What You'll Be Working On
- Building the Vehicle Software SRE team from the ground up, including its charter, team structure, hiring plan, operating model and technical strategy.
- Reliability foundations for onboard software and the workflows that deploy, configure, start, monitor and recover it across vehicle platforms and markets.
- Service-level indicators and objectives, error budgets and production-readiness standards that give teams clear measures of system health and release readiness.
- Observability, health signals and diagnostic tools that help engineers understand failures across onboard compute, sensors, networking and vehicle data.
- Safer deployment and recovery through automated validation, release gates, smoke tests, rollback mechanisms and resilience testing.
- Incident-response workflows, runbooks, escalation paths and sustainable on-call practices that reduce repeat failures and speed up recovery.
- Automation and self-service tools that reduce manual operational work and help vehicle operations scale.
Requirements
- 3+ years of engineering-management experience, with direct responsibility for hiring, performance management, coaching and career development.
- 8+ years of experience building or operating complex production software, with depth in SRE, production engineering, platform engineering, embedded systems or a related field.
- You still write production-quality code, design systems and lead substantive code reviews.
- You have applied SLOs, error budgets, observability, incident management and release-safety practices to deliver measurable improvements.
- You build an inclusive team culture with clear accountability, thoughtful feedback and blameless learning from incidents.
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