Wayve is looking for an Engineering Manager for the Sensor Systems Software team to lead a team in delivering a reliable, stable, and flexible software stack to support on-road experimentation by model developers and scientists. This role is critical to Wayve's mission of improving autonomous driving capabilities and supporting new product features by enabling quick iteration and data gathering.
Requirements
- Automotive Sensor Expertise: Experience working with automotive sensors and technologies like cameras, LiDAR, radar, or localization systems (IMU, GNSS).
- Proven leadership and management experience in a software development team, preferably working with complex and/or embedded systems
- Strong hand-on development experience in a high performance programming language such as C++ or Rust
- Demonstrated ability to build, manage and grow high-performing teams, owning the recruitment process and supporting career development
- Experience working with real-time systems and edge computing
- Experience with robotics, autonomous systems, or other real-world sensing applications
- Familiarity with middleware frameworks (e.g., DDS, ROS 2, custom telemetry systems)
Responsibilities
- Enable streaming of all sensor data into our robot software Pub/Sub system
- Own software support for Wayve designed sensor ingest hardware
- Investigate and resolve sensor related issues on vehicle
- Lead a high performing team of software engineers, providing technical direction and working with the technical lead to break down organisational goals into clear objectives and milestones
- Own the technical roadmap for your team, working with internal stakeholders, customers and other engineering teams to align on priorities and delivery timelines
- Guide your team to develop fault-tolerant software solutions with comprehensive diagnostic tools, to enable any operational issues affecting our internal fleet to be rapidly identified, addressed and diagnosed
- Support the development of your team members through guidance, mentorship and the ongoing provision of high quality feedback
Other
- Empower your team to operate autonomously, ensuring they have the resources, skills and information they need in order to succeed
- Communicate with leadership and other stakeholders to manage expectations, remove roadblocks and overcome any issues affecting the delivery or team
- Excellent communication skills and a track record of effective collaboration across teams and functions
- Strategic acumen and the ability to distill company objectives and customer requirements into a vision and technical roadmap for your team’s internal product
- A degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience
- Experience in developing automotive software, knowledge of DriveOS
- This is a full-time role based in our office in Sunnyvale. At Wayve we want the best of all worlds so we operate a hybrid working policy that combines time together in our offices and workshops to fuel innovation, culture, relationships and learning, and time spent working from home. We operate core working hours so you can determine the schedule that works best for you and your team.
