Engineering Manager - Robot Software , AV Stack London

At Wayve we're committed to creating a diverse, fair and respectful culture that is inclusive of everyone based on their unique skills and perspectives. Founded in 2017, Wayve is the leading developer of Embodied AI technology. Our advanced AI software and foundation models enable vehicles to perceive, understand, and navigate any complex environment, enhancing the usability and safety of automated driving systems. Our vision is to create autonomy that propels the world forward.

The Robot Software team is responsible for the software that runs on our internal fleet of vehicles to enable autonomous driving and collect data for training new driving models. As the Engineering Manager for the AV Stack team, you will lead a motivated and talented team of engineers to deliver a reliable, stable and flexible software stack to support on-road experimentation by our model developers and scientists.

Your work will enable these teams to iterate quickly and gather the data they need to improve our autonomous driving capabilities and support new product features, which is critical to the success of Wayve’s mission. The AV Stack team owns and delivers on-vehicle software including the application software framework & runtime, vehicle health monitor, data logging, telematics, connectivity, and other critical functions.

Key responsibilities:

• Own data logging on vehicle and offload services to ensure data is consistent, high quality, and quickly offloaded.
• Maximize data fidelity and minimize resource consumption.
• Own the vehicle health framework enabling safe robot software on road operation.
• Surface the best information for vehicle operators to quickly operate, understand, and debug any issues with the vehicle.
• Enable coordination and OTA of all system software components.
• Configure, Operate, and Diagnose the connectivity and telematics functions onboard the vehicle as required for fleet operation.
• Lead a high performing team of software engineers, providing technical direction and working with the technical lead to break down organizational 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.
• Empower your team to operate autonomously, ensuring they have the resources, skills and information they need in order to succeed.
• 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.
• Communicate with leadership and other stakeholders to manage expectations, remove roadblocks and overcome any issues affecting the delivery or team.
• Support the development of your team members through guidance, mentorship and the ongoing provision of high quality feedback.

About you:

• Experience with data serialization and IPC/RPC frameworks on Linux (or similar) systems.
• Proven leadership and management experience in a software development team, preferably working with complex and/or embedded systems.
• Strong hands-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.
• 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 with time synchronization on Linux (ntp, ptp, gptp, ptp4l, chrony).
• Experience with high speed data logging.
• Experience with remote and inaccessible device software update, OTA.
• Experience creating Linux application middleware and frameworks.
• 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).
• Experience in developing automotive software, knowledge of DriveOS.

This is a full-time role based in our office in London. 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.

If you’re passionate about self-driving cars and think you have what it takes to make a positive impact on the world, we encourage you to apply.