Tech Lead Manager

Wayve; London; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Wayve is seeking an experienced Tech Lead Manager to join their team in developing next-generation autonomous vehicles. This hybrid role involves both hands-on technical contributions and management responsibilities, focusing on machine learning solutions for autonomous driving. Join a diverse team committed to shaping the future of mobility.

Benefits

Competitive compensation and stock options

On-site chef and bar

Flexible working hours

Help relocating/travelling to London

Qualifications

• 7+ years of ML engineering experience in an industrial research environment.
• 2+ years managing a small team and technical project.

Responsibilities

• Contribute technically while managing a small team.
• Build, integrate, test, and scale algorithms for autonomous driving.

Skills

Machine Learning

Software Engineering

Python

Education

MS, PhD in Machine Learning, Computer Science, Engineering

Job description

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, and regardless of sex, race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding) or any other basis as protected by applicable law.

About us

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. Our intelligent, mapless, and hardware-agnostic AI products are designed for automakers, accelerating the transition from assisted to automated driving.

At Wayve, big problems ignite us—we embrace uncertainty, leaning into complex challenges to unlock groundbreaking solutions. We aim high and stay humble in our pursuit of excellence, constantly learning and evolving as we pave the way for a smarter, safer future.

At Wayve, your contributions matter. We value diversity, embrace new perspectives, and foster an inclusive work environment; we back each other to deliver impact.

Make Wayve the experience that defines your career!

The role

We’re looking for bold, talented, and creative people to join our journey in developing next-generation autonomous vehicles. We’re a growing start-up building our first cohort of engineers, and you can be at the heart of this!

We are looking for an experienced Tech Lead Manager to contribute technically while managing a small team. This hybrid role combines 50% hands-on technical contributions with 50% management leadership responsibilities. You will work across our research team to build, integrate, test, and scale algorithms, tools, and machine learning solutions for autonomous driving.

About you

• 7+ years of ML engineering / applied science experience in an industrial research environment
• 2+ years experience managing a small team and technical project through the full lifecycle, ideally within vision or multimodal space
• Passion for working in a team on research ideas that have real-world impact bringing research concepts through to product,
• Comfortable working with large quantities of image and video data
• Good insight into the practical aspects of training, validation, testing, and metrics for deep learning features/models
• Experience working on machine learning algorithms and systems
• A good grasp of machine learning literature
• Strong software engineering experience in Python
• MS, PhD or above in Machine Learning, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent experience
• (Desirable) Experience working with robotics / self-driving.

Our offer:

• A position to shape the future of autonomous driving, and thus to tackle one of the biggest challenges of our time
• Immersion in a team of world-class researchers, engineers and entrepreneurs
• Competitive compensation and stock options
• On-site chef and bar, lots of fun socials, a workplace nursery scheme and more!
• Help relocating/travelling to London, with visa sponsorship
• Flexible working hours - we trust you to do your job well, at times that suit you and your team.

Wayve is built by people from all walks of life. We believe that it is our differences that make us stronger, and our unique perspectives and backgrounds that allow us to build something different. We are proud to be an equal opportunities workplace, where we don’t just embrace diversity but nurture it - so that we all thrive and grow.

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We understand that everyone has a unique set of skills and experiences and that not everyone will meet all of the requirements listed above. 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.

DISCLAIMER: We will not ask about marriage or pregnancy, care responsibilities or disabilities in any of our job adverts or interviews. However, we do look to capture information about care responsibilities, and disabilities among other diversity information as part of an optional DEI Monitoring form to help us identify areas of improvement in our hiring process and ensure that the process is inclusive and non-discriminatory.

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