Senior TPM: Simulation, Evaluation & Validation

Wayve

Sunnyvale (CA)

Hybrid

USD 215,000 - 274,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Wayve is seeking a Technical Program Manager for Simulation, Evaluation & Validation in Sunnyvale, CA. You will drive cross-team delivery across simulation, evaluation, and validation, aligning roadmaps and dependencies to ensure reliable releases.

You’ll partner with Autonomy, Science, Release, Product, and Safety, applying data-driven metrics to improve velocity, signal quality, and validation credibility while shaping tooling and processes for safer AI systems.

Qualifications

8+ years leading complex, multi-team programs.
Credible with engineers and scientists across simulation, ML, and validation.
Data-driven with ability to define metrics that guide delivery.
Strong planning, prioritising, and risk management.

Responsibilities

Own end-to-end delivery of cross-team programs spanning simulation, evaluation, and validation.
Compose roadmaps across simulators, datasets, evaluation, and triage; manage dependencies, risks, and trade-offs, and elevate early with clear options.
Tie platform delivery to measurable outcomes - developer velocity, signal quality, cost per evaluation, time-to-insight, and validation credibility.
Coordinate release-gating validation: partner with Autonomy, Science, Release, Product, and Safety on acceptance criteria and the validation that gates releases.
Run planning, reviews, and retros, and communicate progress and risk to engineers, partners, and senior leaders.
Champion continuous improvement: Improve tooling, processes, and ways of working across the platforms.