Tech Lead Manager - ML Autonomy Performance

Wayve; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Wayve is building embodied intelligence for autonomous driving, with the Driving team closest to production as we ship end-to-end driving models into vehicles worldwide. You will lead a small team, own data and model iteration, and collaborate across teams to ensure release readiness and performance.

This is a hands-on leadership role with a direct impact on Robotaxi milestones, located in Sunnyvale, CA. Join Wayve to help shape the future of safe autonomous mobility while mentoring others and

Qualifications

• Experience leading small teams (up to five) in a robotics/AI context.
• Strong ability to diagnose issues and drive data/model iteration.
• Experience owning data recipes, model architecture, evaluation and release readiness.

Responsibilities

• Lead a small team (up to five) on Robotaxi driving performance, mixing leadership with hands-on work.
• Diagnose high-impact road issues, root-cause and fix via data and model iteration.
• Own data recipes, model architecture, evaluation and release readiness for the driving model.
• Collaborate to resolve cross-functional issues, including model-vehicle interfaces.
• Write code, run experiments and set team priorities as a hands-on developer.

Job description

Before the detail, here's the challenge you'd help us solve.

We build the embodied intelligence that moves real vehicles safely, and the ecosystem a billion machines will run on in the future. Very few people in AI can say this. Every role here, whatever the team, plugs into that.

Here’s what this particular role covers.

About our [PLACEHOLDER e.g. Engineering] Teams

The Driving team owns Wayve's core end-to-end driving model, which directly shapes how our vehicles behave on the road. We take the backbone models and build the driving heads on top, and ship them into vehicles. That makes us the team closest to production. Our work is central to Wayve's Robotaxi launches around the world, so it ties directly to our near-term commercial milestones. We iterate fast: we find the top issues we see on the road, find their root causes, and fix them through data, model and evaluation changes. We work closely with other teams to solve issues that span the model and the vehicle.

Your day-to-day

• Lead a small team (up to five people) iterating on Robotaxi driving performance, balancing hands-on technical work with people leadership

• Diagnose the highest-impact issues seen on the road, find their root causes and resolve them through data and model iteration

• Own changes to data recipes, model architecture, evaluation and release readiness for the driving model

• Partner with other teams to resolve cross-functional issues, including model and vehicle interface problems

• Be one of the team's key hands-on developers, writing code and running experiments while setting the team's priorities

What you’ll be working on

• The end-to-end driving model that powers Wayve's Robotaxi product as it launches around the world

• Scaling driving performance across cities and vehicle platforms while hitting performance and compliance KPIs