Robotaxi Autonomy Performance Lead

Wayve; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Equity and long-term ownership

Relocation support

Health insurance

Learning & development budget

Wellbeing benefits

Job summary

Wayve in London is hiring for a senior role on the Robotaxi team responsible for the autonomy performance measurement framework, metrics, dashboards, and release gates. You'll help decide ship/not-ship decisions and improve the end-to-end system that runs the learned driving stack.

This role requires hands-on work in Python/C++/SQL, cross-functional leadership, and ownership of releases to a fleet of robots, with collaboration across core engineering, evaluation, robotics, and SRE.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated cross-functional engineering leadership across multiple teams.
• Strong product and customer focus linking metrics to rider experience.
• Robotics performance debugging with real-world issues and time-series signals.
• Hands-on coding and analytics in Python/C++/SQL.
• Experience releasing to a fleet of robots in production.
• Familiarity with data/observability stacks (Databricks/SQL, Grafana).

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve the autonomy performance measurement framework for Robotaxi (driving + pick‑up/drop‑off): the metrics, dashboards, and narrative leadership uses to make ship/no‑ship decisions
• Build and run the end‑to‑end performance improvement loop: detect issues, triage and prioritise, drive root‑cause investigations, and land fixes across model, robot software, backend, and evaluation tooling
• Lead cross‑functional execution across AV core, evaluation/validation, robotics, robot software, triage/systems, and SRE, aligning roadmaps to performance outcomes without direct reporting authority
• Define and enforce performance release gates and regression detection for production deployments, owning readiness calls and incident follow‑through
• Stay hands‑on in the data and code when needed (Python/C++/SQL) to accelerate debugging and unblock delivery
• Stand up Robotaxi's performance operating system from scratch: metrics, triage funnel, release gates, and rollback plans for an end‑to‑end learned driving system with no existing playbook to copy

Skills

Cross-functional leadership

Product orientation

Robotics performance debugging

Hands-on debugging

Python

C++

SQL

Release ownership

Databricks

Grafana

Tools

Looker

Databricks/SQL

Grafana

Python

C++

SQL

Job description

Wayve in London is hiring for a senior role on the Robotaxi team responsible for the autonomy performance measurement framework, metrics, dashboards, and release gates. You'll help decide ship/not-ship decisions and improve the end-to-end system that runs the learned driving stack.

This role requires hands-on work in Python/C++/SQL, cross-functional leadership, and ownership of releases to a fleet of robots, with collaboration across core engineering, evaluation, robotics, and SRE.