Head of Vehicle Software Reliability

EngineersOfAI; Sunnyvale (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Wayve seeks an experienced SRE Manager to build the Vehicle Software SRE team from the ground up, defining its charter and hiring its founding engineers.

You will set the operating model, own reliability strategy across deployment, telemetry, and diagnostics, and remain hands-on with code and design reviews.

This role places you at the intersection of software, hardware, networking, and sensors, directly influencing safety and fleet scalability.

Qualifications

• 8+ years building and operating production software systems with strong depth in SRE, production engineering, platform engineering, embedded systems, or robotics.
• 3+ years in people management or leadership roles.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead a new SRE team from the ground up, staying hands-on as a player-coach on the team's most consequential work.
• Own technical direction for vehicle software reliability across deployment, service health, telemetry, and diagnostics; define what production-ready means.
• Define SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets for fleet-critical workflows; drive release criteria, automated gates, rollback strategies, and fault-injection practices.
• Design and implement observability and automation to shorten time from symptom to root cause, reduce toil, and improve robustness.
• Lead investigations into complex failures, ensure durable fixes, and strengthen on-call practices and escalation paths.
• Mentor engineers and provide leadership with clarity on reliability health, risks, and investment.

Skills

SRE leadership

Production engineering

Platform engineering

Embedded systems

Robotics

Architecture reviews

Job description

Wayve seeks an experienced SRE Manager to build the Vehicle Software SRE team from the ground up, defining its charter and hiring its founding engineers.

You will set the operating model, own reliability strategy across deployment, telemetry, and diagnostics, and remain hands-on with code and design reviews.

This role places you at the intersection of software, hardware, networking, and sensors, directly influencing safety and fleet scalability.