Remote | Engineering Manager

At Wayve we're committed to creating a diverse, fair and respectful culture that is inclusive of everyone based on their unique skills and perspectives, and regardless of sex, race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding) or any other basis as protected by applicable law. 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. We value diversity, embrace new perspectives, and foster an inclusive work environment; As the Engineering Manager of Semantic Understanding, you will lead a development team focused on extracting rules from the environment that influence driving behaviour. Initially, these will feed into ADAS functions such as lane assist, traffic sign detection, and ODD classification, as part of our ADAS One-Stop Shop product. 0 approach to ADAS outperforms the current systems available in the market, enabled by large volumes of data, edge filtering, and validation at scale. Help define and drive the Semantic Understanding roadmap, lead technical discussions and guide direction where needed. Understand Wayve’s end-to-end approach and how it maps to AV 1.0, drawing parallels in our development story and highlighting key advantages. Dive into data analytics, constructing evaluation suites, and get in-vehicle experiences from time to time to ground your understanding of the system. In order to set you up for success as an Engineering Manager at Wayve, we’re looking for the following skills and experience. Proven track record of managing engineering teams. Solid understanding of machine learning fundamentals. Experience with roadmap planning, stakeholder management, requirements gathering and alignment with peers towards milestones and deliverables. Track record of promoting software engineering best practices and excellence within the team. Demonstrated ability to manage software engineers and grow their careers. Good foundational coding knowledge and experience. Experience with performance evaluation of embodied AI systems. Development experience in Python. This is a full-time role based in our office in London. At Wayve we want the best of all worlds so we operate a hybrid working policy that combines time together in our offices and workshops to fuel innovation, culture, relationships and learning, and time spent working from home. If you’re passionate about self-driving cars and think you have what it takes to make a positive impact on the world, we encourage you to apply. We will not ask about marriage or pregnancy, care responsibilities or disabilities in any of our job adverts or interviews. However, we do look to capture information about care responsibilities, and disabilities among other diversity information as part of an optional DEI Monitoring form to help us identify areas of improvement in our hiring process and ensure that the process is inclusive and non-discriminatory.