Engineering Manager - Robot Software, System Performance

Wayve; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A tech-driven company in London is looking for an Engineering Manager for their Robot Software team. The role involves leading a talented team to optimize software for autonomous vehicles while collecting metrics and supporting software tools. Candidates should have experience in Linux profiling tools and strong leadership skills in software development. This full-time position offers a hybrid working model that combines office and remote work.

Qualifications

• Experience providing technical leadership in diagnostics and tuning system behavior.
• Proven leadership and management experience in complex software development teams.
• Hands-on experience in high-performance programming languages.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of engineers with technical direction.
• Own performance tooling and metrics collection.
• Communicate with leadership to manage expectations.

Skills

Linux profiling tools

Technical leadership

Leadership experience

C++ or Rust programming

High-performing teams management

Excellent communication skills

Strategic acumen

Degree in Computer Science or related field

Education

Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field

Tools

QNX

ROS2

pprof

valgrind

Job description

Engineering Manager - Robot Software, System Performance

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, 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.

In our fast-paced environment 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

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 System Performance team, you will lead a motivated and talented team of engineers and own performance tooling, frameworks, and support for our on-vehicle software. This team will help instrument and collect metrics, analyze performance issues, drive changes to existing and new designs, and support offline tooling to improve the performance of the software and the velocity of the team.

Key responsibilities:

• Own System Performance Tooling, Frameworks, & Support to collecting metrics, improving designs, and reducing latency throughout our system
• Own driving changes and software upgrades to the base frameworks as needed
• Own code generation for performance inspection, alerting, and improved performance
• Support new compute benchmarking & studies
• 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

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

• Experience with Linux profiling tools (e.g., perf, valgrind, pprof, strace, ftrace)
• Experience providing technical leadership in profiling, diagnostics, and tuning system behavior.
• 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 QNX or similar realtime operating systems
• Familiarity with middleware frameworks (e.g., ROS2, Apex.ai, DDS)
• 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 operate a hybrid working policy that combines time in the office and flexible 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.

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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