Engineering Manager, Runtime Platform for Embedded Robotics

Wayve; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Wayve is seeking an Engineering Manager for Runtime Platform in London. You will lead a team responsible for on-vehicle frameworks, middleware, performance, and observability, owning delivery and technical direction.

You'll coach engineers, manage hiring, align roadmaps with company goals, and collaborate with Vehicle Software teams and OEM programs. Hybrid, office + home, core hours.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading software/systems teams.
• Hands-on depth in embedded software (C++).
• Strong technical judgment and roadmap ownership.
• Experience with latency, profiling, real-time scheduling.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow the team (first priority): keep the team engaged, developing, and performing with good morale; run 1:1s, set clear expectations, give regular high-quality feedback, manage performance, and support career growth against our career framework.
• Hire and build the team: own hiring and onboarding to get the right people in the right roles, and shape the team's culture and ways of working as it forms.
• Drive execution: ensure the team's work advances company goals; staff committed programs, keep the roadmap aligned to available resources, prioritize, and hold the team accountable for delivery, quality, and operational reliability.
• Set technical direction: ensure the team has a clear, holistic technical direction and clear ownership of its technology-roadmap milestones — working closely with the team's tech lead(s) and stakeholders; own the outcome of the team's technical decisions.
• Own the runtime foundations: guide the team's work across system design, application frameworks, the middleware/IPC layer, performance & optimization, and measurement & observability. Enable new vehicle platform enablement with incremental work and minimal performance degradation. Implement and maintain strong CI, HIL, and internal quality gates to provide a robust framework for fast iteration..
• Collaborate and unblock: cascade the roadmap, partner with internal Vehicle Software teams, model developers, hardware, and OEM programs. Act as the point of escalation for your team, and proactively surface and resolve risks and dependencies.

Skills

Engineering management

Delivery leadership

Technical credibility

Performance & systems

IPC / middleware

Cross-functional leadership

Tools

C++

Embedded Linux

QNX

OpenTelemetry

Grafana

Datadog

Job description

Wayve is seeking an Engineering Manager for Runtime Platform in London. You will lead a team responsible for on-vehicle frameworks, middleware, performance, and observability, owning delivery and technical direction.

You'll coach engineers, manage hiring, align roadmaps with company goals, and collaborate with Vehicle Software teams and OEM programs. Hybrid, office + home, core hours.