Automotive Product Security Lead

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.

The role

As the Automotive Product Security Lead at Wayve, you will define, mature, and operate the product security framework for the company’s automotive software activities.

This includes our internal R&D fleet, robotaxi programme, and automotive software supplied to OEM customers, with assurance expectations applied proportionally to each context.

You will help ensure Wayve can develop, assure, and supply automotive software that meets cybersecurity expectations from internal governance, customers, regulators, and external assessors.

You will be trusted to determine what good looks like for automotive product security at Wayve, applying industry best practice with pragmatism and adapting it to our technology, risk profile, product maturity, and stage of growth.

You will translate regulations, standards, customer expectations and risk assessments into clear, practical requirements that product and engineering teams can apply effectively.

This senior individual‑contributor role works closely with product, engineering, safety and customer‑facing teams, setting standards, guiding, and assuring implementation.

Delivery teams apply the controls and processes, produce evidence and work products, maintain cybersecurity cases and own residual risk.

The role is advisory and assurance‑focused, providing oversight, challenge, and pragmatic guidance to the business while enabling product and engineering teams to meet automotive cybersecurity expectations without unnecessary friction.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and maintain Wayve’s automotive product security framework, aligned to ISO 21434, ASPICE for Cybersecurity, and customer assurance expectations.
• Establish practical processes, templates, guidance and minimum control expectations for automotive cybersecurity activities across R&D fleet, robotaxi and customer software programmes.
• Act as the product security lead across automotive software activities, helping teams understand required security activities, when they are needed and what good evidence looks like.
• Coordinate product security activity across security, product, engineering, safety and customer‑facing teams to ensure dependencies, risks and assurance needs are understood early.
• Define the minimum expectations, structure and quality bar for Wayve’s automotive cybersecurity cases.
• Provide independent review of required work products, traceability and completeness, residual risk statements and overall credibility of the cybersecurity case.
• Assess whether the cybersecurity case provides a defensible argument that the relevant system or software is acceptably secure for its intended context.
• Establish mechanisms for product cybersecurity risk visibility, challenge, escalation and decision‑making across automotive programmes.
• Partner with risk owners to ensure residual product cybersecurity risks are clearly documented, treatment options are understood, remediation is tracked and acceptance decisions are made by the appropriate accountable owners.
• Translate automotive cybersecurity regulatory, standards and customer expectations into practical internal requirements and assurance activities.
• Support preparation for external audits, customer assessments and OEM reviews where product cybersecurity evidence is required.
• Represent Wayve credibly in product security discussions with customers, partners and external assessors.
• Advise and upskill product and engineering teams on automotive cybersecurity practices, including TARA, cybersecurity requirements, secure architecture, implementation evidence, verification, validation and security testing expectations.
• Build reusable guidance and playbooks that help teams integrate product security into existing development processes without duplicative or unnecessary process overhead.
• Develop meaningful metrics that demonstrate automotive product security maturity, assurance readiness, evidence quality, risk treatment progress and recurring areas of weakness.
• Provide clear reporting to security, product, engineering and other senior stakeholders, using evidence and judgement to drive continuous improvement in Wayve’s product security capability.

About You

Essential

• Proven experience in a senior product security, automotive cybersecurity, embedded systems security or security assurance role, with accountability for influencing security outcomes across complex technical programmes.
• Strong knowledge of automotive cybersecurity expectations, particularly ISO 21434 and UNECE R155.
• Experience defining, applying or assessing cybersecurity lifecycle activities and work products, including TARA, cybersecurity goals, cybersecurity requirements, verification and validation evidence and residual risk treatment.
• Strong technical judgement across software security, embedded or vehicle systems, secure architecture, threat modelling, security testing and risk assessment.
• Experience reviewing or contributing to cybersecurity cases, assurance cases, technical evidence packs or comparable structured security arguments.
• Excellent judgement and independence, with confidence challenging issues while maintaining constructive working relationships.
• Experience partnering with product, engineering, delivery, safety, legal, security, supplier or customer‑facing teams to deliver proportionate and effective security outcomes.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, able to translate standards, risks and assurance expectations into clear practical guidance for technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
• Comfort operating with high autonomy in a fast‑moving, ambiguous environment where the right level of process needs to be designed, not simply inherited.

Desirable

• Experience establishing or scaling a product security or automotive cybersecurity capability in a growing or fast‑moving organisation.
• Experience with OEM customer assurance, external audits, cybersecurity certification, type approval or independent assessment activity.
• Familiarity with ASPICE, ISO 26262, ISO 21448/SOTIF or safety‑security interface management.
• Experience with autonomous vehicles, ADAS, robotics, safety‑critical software, automotive software platforms, vehicle networks, OTA update systems or fleet operations.
• Experience managing product‑security‑relevant supplier assurance, supplier evidence or third‑party cybersecurity risk in an automotive context.
• Relevant certifications or training such as ISO 21434, CISSP, CSSLP, GICSP or automotive cybersecurity training.

This is a full‑time role based in our offices in London, Sunnyvale or Leonberg.

We operate a hybrid working policy that combines time together in our offices and workshops with time working from home, and core working hours to allow flexible scheduling.

Equal Opportunity & Inclusion

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