Engineering Manager – OS & Robot Software

EngineersOfAI; Sunnyvale (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Wayve seeks an Engineering Manager for OS to lead a single team, owning delivery, engagement, resourcing, roadmap, and performance. You will coach, grow, hire, and ensure alignment with business goals while setting clear technical direction and owning critical platform decisions.

You will guide system design, testing, deployment, and CI/HIL, while collaborating with hardware partners and internal teams to enable new platforms and scalable release gates in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Proven engineering management experience leading software/systems teams.
• Experience shipping a team roadmap with delivery accountability.
• Hands-on technical credibility in software architecture.

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 OS foundations: guide the team's work across system design, implementation, testing, deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement. Evaluate and drive the roadmap of the operating system at Wayve. Unlock new hardware 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.
• Bring up new hardware platforms: collaborate with our Hardware partners on new board bring-ups and scale with quality. Optimize build, package, and deployment systems for broad capability and high heterogeneity. Set quality metrics and targets to gate deployment from 1 to 10,000 units and follow through with fully automated testing and release gates.
• 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

Team delivery

Technical architecture

Job description

Wayve seeks an Engineering Manager for OS to lead a single team, owning delivery, engagement, resourcing, roadmap, and performance. You will coach, grow, hire, and ensure alignment with business goals while setting clear technical direction and owning critical platform decisions.

You will guide system design, testing, deployment, and CI/HIL, while collaborating with hardware partners and internal teams to enable new platforms and scalable release gates in a fast-paced environment.