Engineering Manager, Japan Fleet SRE - AV Safety (Hybrid)

Wayve; United States; Hybride; USD 160 000 - 260 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Salary benchmarking

Meaningful equity

Relocation support & visa sponsorship

Hybrid working

Learning & development budgets

Comprehensive benefits

Résumé du poste

Wayve is seeking an hands-on Engineering Manager to lead the Japan Fleet Reliability SRE team, responsible for reliability, safety and availability of our autonomous vehicle fleet. You’ll own the team’s people, roadmap and outcomes, staying close to incidents, designs, code and vehicle systems and contributing directly when needed.

This role requires engineering leadership with a track record of guiding a 5–10 engineer team, and a strong background in reliability engineering, observability and

Qualifications

• Engineering-management experience with direct accountability for a software, SRE, platform, systems or similarly technical team.
• A track record of leading and developing a team of approximately 5–10 engineers or similarly complex multidisciplinary groups.
• Practical mastery of reliability engineering, observability, incident management, release and change safety, resilience and continuous improvement.
• Strong engineering depth and current credibility in design review, debugging, automation, code review and production systems.
• Experience owning roadmaps, resourcing, dependencies, technical trade-offs and measurable delivery outcomes.
• Evidence of hiring, coaching, developing and managing performance while creating clarity, accountability and psychological safety.
• Calm, structured judgement during incidents and the ability to communicate risk clearly to senior, technical and operational stakeholders.
• Willingness to work regularly onsite in the Yokohama area and join an engineering escalation rotation.
• Permission to work in Japan, or eligibility for employer-supported immigration where applicable to the final hiring plan.

Responsabilités

• Building, coaching and retaining a high-performing, inclusive Japan Fleet Reliability SRE team, owning hiring, performance, career development, capacity and sustainable escalation coverage.
• Improving safe on-road availability, detection and recovery, repeat-incident rates, software and model rollout reliability, and data workflows, and leading the team to engineer away recurring operational toil through maintainable code, tooling and automation.
• Leading high-severity engineering incidents and making sure blameless reviews produce measurable, owned and durable improvements.
• Setting technical direction for observability, SLI/SLOs, production readiness, release safety, automation, remote diagnostics and fleet tooling, and taking part in design and code reviews.
• Partnering with Vehicle Software, Fleet Operations, Field Engineering, VSI/Platform Integration, Vehicle Generalization, safety, infrastructure and programme teams to move new vehicles and capabilities into stable operations.
• Representing Japan’s priorities in global roadmaps, and communicating risks and decisions effectively with Japanese OEMs, suppliers, mobility partners and Wayve leaders.

Connaissances

Engineering management

Team leadership

Reliability engineering

Incident management

Roadmaps & resourcing

Outils

Kubernetes

Python

Go

Rust

TypeScript

Description du poste

Wayve is seeking an hands-on Engineering Manager to lead the Japan Fleet Reliability SRE team, responsible for reliability, safety and availability of our autonomous vehicle fleet. You’ll own the team’s people, roadmap and outcomes, staying close to incidents, designs, code and vehicle systems and contributing directly when needed.

This role requires engineering leadership with a track record of guiding a 5–10 engineer team, and a strong background in reliability engineering, observability and