# Operational Safety Manager

**Company**: Wayve
**Location**: Detroit, Michigan
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $100,000 to $120,000
**Category**: Operations
**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 our Operational Safety Team

The Operational Safety Team ensures on-road testing and robotaxi operations are conducted to the highest standards of safety and compliance within the US regulatory landscape. This independent function provides proactive oversight to identify emerging risks, assure safe execution of deployments, and serve as a check and balance across engineering, fleet operations, and global safety initiatives.

## Your Day-to-Day

- Monitor daily safety performance across fleet operations, R&D testing, and deployments

- Track and analyze safety performance indicators, trends, and anomalies, using findings to influence operational controls and risk mitigation

- Lead and support investigations into on-road incidents and near-misses, preparing structured root cause analysis reports and summarizing findings for cross-functional stakeholders

- Prepare and document actionable investigation analyses, ensuring corrective actions are integrated into engineering, operations, and risk management processes

- Support regulatory and partner reporting requirements as needed

- Carry out hazard identification and risk assessment activities in support of on-road operations

- Maintain and update operational risk registers; support and monitor the effectiveness of risk controls

- Work closely with engineers, operators, and global safety teams to ensure best practices and knowledge sharing

- Develop and deliver safety training programs, risk assessments, and promote a proactive safety mindset throughout the organization

- Advocate for strong safety outcomes and continuous improvement in all operational activities

## What You'll Be Working On

- Ensuring the validity of Wayve's safety case through performance monitoring and risk analysis

- Leading and documenting incident investigations, including root cause analysis and corrective actions

- Supporting compliance with US regulatory frameworks (e.g., CA DMV, NHTSA) related to autonomous vehicle operations

- Developing operational safety processes and training to support a rapidly scaling fleet in a fast-paced environment

- Continuously improving the safety culture across field and engineering teams

## Requirements

- 5+ years experience investigating incidents in a fast-paced, safety-critical environment

- Experience in operational safety, risk monitoring, or safety assurance in a fleet, logistics, field engineering, or operational environment

- Strong analytical mindset with the ability to interpret data, identify patterns, derive insights, and present findings to technical and management audiences

- Ability to operate independently and make sound safety judgments

- Good understanding of industry standards/guidelines relevant to AV, automotive, or similar domains

- Experience with human factors: workload, attention, driver/operator interaction risks

- Ability to develop and implement effective safety processes and procedures

## Nice to Have

- Experience with autonomous vehicle or ADAS testing and development

- Background in automotive, aviation, defense, or manufacturing safety management systems

- Understanding of US autonomous vehicle regulations (e.g., CA DMV, NHTSA)

- Familiarity with automotive systems, electronics, and related safety implications

- Experience supporting robotaxi or ride-hail operations

## Benefits

- Estimated salary range: $100,000 to $120,000 (Detroit, MI, hybrid), plus a competitive equity package

- 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

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## Skills

### Required
- operational safety
- risk monitoring
- safety assurance
- analytical mindset
- human factors

### Nice to have
- autonomous vehicle testing
- ADAS development
- automotive safety management systems
- US autonomous vehicle regulations

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