Technical Product Manager - Development Vehicles

EngineersOfAI; Sunnyvale, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Wayve, based in Sunnyvale, CA, is seeking a Technical Product Manager to own the roadmap for development and experimentation vehicle platforms where software, hardware, and operations converge to enable rapid iteration.

You will partner with engineering, program management, and internal teams to translate platform requirements into scalable capabilities that accelerate experiments, data collection, and deployments.

Qualifications

• 5+ years shipping autonomy/AV features end-to-end (concept → integration → validation → release).
• Strong systems thinking: assess platform changes across development, data, tooling and operations.
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills across engineering through leadership.
• Track record coordinating cross-functional execution across multiple teams.
• 2+ years hands-on with embedded platforms, architecture, development, validation.
• Thrives in fast-paced, iterative environments with evolving priorities.
• Scrappy, resourceful, focused on outcomes.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve the roadmap for development and experimentation vehicle platform features.
• Gather and prioritize requirements across engineering, program management, and internal customers; translate into workflows, specs and success criteria.
• Define and track platform KPIs; maintain a cohesive view of current capabilities and future work.
• Make product tradeoffs and manage stakeholder expectations across teams with competing priorities.
• Reduce time-to-debug, deploy experiments, and access data by improving tooling and processes.
• Drive reuse and scalability of capabilities across reference vehicles and customer programs; minimize one-off configurations.
• Improve consistency between internal development environments and customer workflows.

Skills

AV feature shipping

Systems thinking

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional coordination

Embedded platforms

Fast-paced environment

Outcome oriented

Engineering degree

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Engineering or CS

Job description

About us

Founded in 2017, Wayve is the leading developer of Embodied AI technology. Our advanced AI software and foundation models enable vehicles to perceive, understand, and navigate any complex environment, enhancing the usability and safety of automated driving systems.

Our vision is to create autonomy that propels the world forward. Our intelligent, mapless, and hardware-agnostic AI products are designed for automakers, accelerating the transition from assisted to automated driving.
In our fast-paced environment big problems ignite us—we embrace uncertainty, leaning into complex challenges to unlock groundbreaking solutions. We aim high and stay humble in our pursuit of excellence, constantly learning and evolving as we pave the way for a smarter, safer future.

At Wayve, your contributions matter. We value diversity, embrace new perspectives, and foster an inclusive work environment; we back each other to deliver impact.

Make Wayve the experience that defines your career!

The role

Own the roadmap for Wayve's development and experimentation vehicle platforms—where software, hardware, and operations meet to make rapid iteration possible. You'll partner across engineering, program management, and internal teams to turn platform requirements into scalable capabilities that accelerate experiments, data collection, and deployments. This is a hands-on, high-trust role focused on making smart tradeoffs and delivering platforms that enable Wayve's priorities (and, where relevant, customer programs) to move faster and more reliably.

Key responsibilities

• Own and evolve the roadmap for development & experimentation vehicle platform features.
• Gather and prioritize requirements across engineering, program management, and internal customers; translate them into clear workflows, specs, and measurable success criteria.
• Define and track platform product KPIs; maintain a cohesive view of current capabilities and what's next.
• Make product tradeoffs and manage stakeholder expectations across teams with competing priorities.
• Reduce time-to-debug, deploy experiments, and access data by improving tooling and processes.
• Drive reuse and scalability of capabilities across reference vehicles and customer programs; minimize one-off configurations.
• Improve consistency between internal development environments and customer-operated workflows.

About you

In order to set you up for success as a Technical Product Manager at Wayve, we're looking for the following skills and experience.

Essential

• 5+ years of experience shipping autonomy / AV features end-to-end (concept → integration → validation → release)
• Strong systems thinking: can assess how platform changes impact downstream development, data, tooling, and operations
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills; able to challenge respectfully across engineering through leadership
• Track record coordinating cross-functional execution across multiple teams to deliver complex, interdependent programs
• 2+ years of hands-on experience with embedded platforms, with direct involvement in architecture, development, and validation
• Thrives in fast-paced, iterative environments with evolving priorities - brings momentum and calm to fast-moving environments without adding unnecessary process
• Scrappy, resourceful, and focused on outcomes
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field

Desirable

• Experience owning or scaling developer / operations tooling and processes in complex hardware+software environments
• Exposure to data feedback loops, data collection, and fleet operations in AV contexts
• Prior experience working with external customers or partner programs, translating needs into productized workflows
• Familiarity with automotive real-time environments, AI compute platforms, and sensors

This role is a full-time role based in Sunnyvale, CA (hybrid) and the reasonably estimated salary for this role ran