wayve - Engineering Manager, Runtime Platform, Robot Software

• You’ll lead a single team and be accountable for its delivery, engagement, resourcing, roadmap and performance. People leadership will be your first priority: you’ll coach and develop engineers, maintain a healthy and high-performing team, and lead hiring and onboarding as the team grows. • You’ll combine this with strong technical judgement, establishing direction across latency, profiling, real-time scheduling, middleware and observability. Working closely with technical leads and stakeholders, you’ll own the outcomes of the team’s technical decisions and ensure its roadmap supports Wayve’s broader goals. • You’ll also act as the team’s escalation point, proactively identifying and resolving risks, dependencies and delivery challenges. • 🧩 WHAT YOU’LL BE WORKING ON • Leading and developing the team: Run effective one-to-ones, set clear expectations, provide regular high-quality feedback, manage performance and support career development against Wayve’s career framework • Hiring and building the team: Own hiring and onboarding, ensure the right people are in the right roles, and shape the team’s culture and ways of working • Driving execution: Staff committed programmes, align the roadmap with available resources, prioritise effectively and hold the team accountable for delivery, quality and operational reliability • Setting technical direction: Establish a clear, holistic direction and ownership of technology-roadmap milestones in partnership with technical leads and stakeholders • Owning runtime foundations: Guide the team’s work across system design, application frameworks, middleware and IPC, performance optimisation, measurement and observability • Enabling new vehicle platforms: Support additional vehicle platforms through incremental development while minimizing performance degradation • Strengthening quality and iteration: Implement and maintain strong continuous integration, hardware-in-the-loop testing and internal quality gates • Collaborating across Wayve: Partner with Vehicle Software, model development, hardware and OEM programe teams • Unblocking delivery: Cascade the roadmap, surface risks and dependencies early, and act as the team’s point of escalation • 🙌 YOU SHOULD APPLY IF • You have a strong track record of leading, growing, engaging and retaining a high-performing software or systems team • You have experience hiring, coaching, providing feedback, managing performance and supporting engineers’ career development • You have owned a team roadmap and delivered through others, including planning, prioritisation, resourcing and accountability for quality and operational reliability • You have hands-on experience architecting and delivering embedded software shipped in a physical product to real customers • You understand high-performance, low-latency embedded software developed in C++ and can earn the trust of senior systems engineers without needing to be the team’s top individual contributor • You understand profiling, benchmarking, latency, throughput, memory-bandwidth analysis and real-time scheduling on embedded Linux • You have a strong understanding of middleware used in high-throughput, real-time or robotics systems, including the trade-offs across vendors and platforms • You can establish direction and deliver through influence across multiple stakeholder teams • The following experience would be useful but is not required: • Automotive, robotics or another safety-relevant, real-time domain • QNX, a microkernel architecture or another real-time operating system • Profiling tools such as pprof/gperftools, perf, Nsight or NVLumo • Observability platforms such as OpenTelemetry, Grafana or Datadog • NVIDIA Orin or Thor compute platforms • Qualcomm compute platforms • 🌱 Not ticking every box? That’s totally okay. If you’re passionate about autonomy and keen to learn, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every requirement.