Engineering Manager - Driving Intelligence

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

Job summary

An innovative firm is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the development of autonomous vehicle capabilities. This role focuses on fostering team growth and ensuring production-level quality in machine learning models. You will guide strategic initiatives and drive innovation in a collaborative environment. If you are passionate about autonomy and AI, this opportunity allows you to make a significant impact in a rapidly evolving field. Join a team that values diversity and embraces challenges to shape the future of mobility.

Qualifications

• Experience managing ML development teams and fostering growth.
• Hands-on ML development experience in robotics or embodied AI.

Responsibilities

• Grow and support a team of engineers and model developers.
• Establish solid engineering practices for ML models.

Skills

Machine Learning

Team Management

Roadmap Planning

Stakeholder Management

Technical Expertise

Education

MS in Computer Science

PhD in Engineering

Tools

Python

TensorFlow

PyTorch

Job description

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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

As an Engineering Manager in Driving Intelligence, your role is on the critical path to the success of the company. You are responsible for guiding the development of our autonomous vehicle capabilities with production-level quality. This includes training, tuning and debugging production models, informing decisions on how to collect and synthesise training data. We're looking for leaders who can foster innovation, drive strategic initiatives, and steer teams towards achieving breakthroughs in driving intelligence. Join us to shape the future of mobility and AI.

Key Responsibilities

• Grow an already strong team of engineers and model developers.
• Ensure team members are having a strong impact and are set up for success.
• Ensure projects are resourced in a way that balances the needs of the business with the needs of the individuals.
• Bring technical expertise and experience to help accelerate our progress and decision making.
• Establish solid engineering practices in developing ML models to production-level quality
• Challenge the status quo (both technical and organisational/process).
• Prioritise effectively and keep processes lean and effective.
• Partner with leadership to maintain a culture of collaboration, impact, innovation, and health.
• Grow the team as a hiring manager, to bring in complementary, diverse skill sets and backgrounds. Anticipate the needs of the business 6-24 months out, identify areas where additional resources are needed or we need to grow new domain expertise, and pitch this to leadership for investment.
• Contribute to day-to-day running of the Software team’s operations and larger collaborative efforts.
• Assess general team health and look for opportunities to improve processes and best practices
  
  

About You

In order to set you up for success as an Engineering Manager in Driving Intelligence at Wayve, we’re looking for the following skills and experience.

Essential

• Prior experience as a manager of ML development teams.
• Passionate about fostering personal and professional growth in individual team members
• Industry experience with embodied AI development with real-world product impact.
• Experience with roadmap planning, stakeholder management, requirements gathering and alignment with peers towards milestones and deliverables.
• Prior hands-on ML development experience in an embodied area (e.g., robotics).
• MS or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or similar experience.
  
  

Desirable

• Experience working in a project-based (“matrix”) operating environment
• Strong knowledge of Machine Learning and related areas, such as Deep Learning, Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision, etc.
• Experience developing machine learning solutions for Autonomous Vehicles.
  
  

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.

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.

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.

For more information visit Careers at Wayve.

To learn more about what drives us, visit Values at Wayve

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.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

• Industries

  Software Development

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