Engineering Manager, Compute Foundations (Multi-Cloud AI)

Wayve; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working model

Meaningful equity

Relocation support & visa sponsorship

Health insurance

Learning & development budget

Wellbeing partnerships

Job summary

Wayve is seeking a senior leader to guide a London-based Compute Foundations team. You will mentor engineers, set roadmaps, and drive multi-cloud training and inference platforms, balancing cost, capacity, and performance.

You will partner with stakeholders to prioritise work, develop technical leadership, and ensure reliable, scalable compute across GPUs and architectures, in a hybrid London working model.

Qualifications

• Experience leading infrastructure or distributed systems teams.
• Proven track record in hiring, coaching, performance management.
• Substantial Kubernetes and workload scheduling experience.
• Ability to optimize compute, storage and data movement across cloud.
• Experience with large-scale GPU compute infrastructure for ML.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop the team, coaching engineers and managing performance.
• Own project prioritisation and roadmap planning with stakeholders.
• Set KPIs and dashboards to monitor system health and progress.
• Balance reliability, performance, capacity and cost in cloud infra.
• Scale multi-cloud, multi-region training and inference platforms.
• Oversee Kubernetes-based infrastructure and scheduling systems.

Skills

People leadership

Kubernetes

Cloud platforms

GPU compute infrastructure

Tools

Kubernetes

Kueue

Job description

Wayve is seeking a senior leader to guide a London-based Compute Foundations team. You will mentor engineers, set roadmaps, and drive multi-cloud training and inference platforms, balancing cost, capacity, and performance.

You will partner with stakeholders to prioritise work, develop technical leadership, and ensure reliable, scalable compute across GPUs and architectures, in a hybrid London working model.