Engineering Manager, Wayve
Simulation
2-5 days a week in office
Autonomous mobility driven by AI
Open for applications
Autonomous mobility driven by AI
201-500 employees
Open for applications
2-5 days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To reimagine autonomous mobility through embodied intelligence.
Role
Who you are
- Proven track record of leading engineering teams
- 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
Desirable
- Prior experience working with simulation platforms
- Experience building systems in Python and/or C++
- Solid understanding of machine learning fundamentals
What the job involves
- We’re looking for bold, talented and creative people to join our journey in developing next-generation autonomous vehicles. We’re a growing company, building our cohort of engineers and you can be at the heart of this
- As an Engineering Manager for the Simulation team, you will lead a team of engineers in building the simulation platform to develop and evaluate Wayve’s driving intelligence
- You’ll be managing a multi disciplinary team and working closely with other leaders from across robotics, machine learning development and data to ensure the quality and efficiency of the simulator and deliver an effective evaluation and development platform
- Help define and drive simulation roadmap to deliver on company goals and priorities
- Lead technical discussions and guide technical direction where needed
- Set effective KPIs and metrics
- Build resilient and reliable systems, and teams, Anticipate the needs of the business 18 months out, identify areas where additional resources are needed and grow team as hiring manager
- Prioritise effectively, implement and maintain lean and effective team processes
- Communicate effectively with internal stakeholders, and other teams within the organisation to ensure alignment
- Work closely with team members to develop career plans and growth trajectories
- Actively foster and promote technical excellence within the team
- Partner with leadership to maintain a culture of impact, performance, and health
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Wayve is developing artificial intelligence (AI) that teaches cars to drive autonomously using reinforcement learning, simulation, and computer vision. Wayve’s core premise is that the big breakthrough in self-driving cars will come from better AI brains rather than more sensors or “hand-coded” rules which it believes are highly restrictive and not at all scalable.
The company said that it trains its autonomous driving system using simulated environments and then transfers that knowledge into the real world, where it emulates how humans adapt to conditions in real time. It ultimately relies on end-to-end deep learning AI rather than hard-engineered AI. This is one of the world's hardest problems to solve, but Wayve has made an exciting start and is taking a very different approach to competitors like Uber and Waymo, who are relying more on sensors.
Following a few years of innovative breakthroughs, Wayve now has backing from high-profile investors such as Microsoft and angels, including Uber's chief scientist Zoubin Ghahramani and Pieter Abbeel, a UC Berkeley robotics professor and pioneer of deep reinforcement learning. The company's strategic partnerships with outfits like Asda and Ocado to test-run autonomous deliveries, as well as publicity through the Minister is a show of confidence in the future of Wayve's solution to autonomous driving.
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Insights
Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
28% female employees
24% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
May 2024
$1.1bn
SERIES C
Jan 2022
$200m
SERIES B
Total funding: $1.3bn
Company benefits
- Learning budget
- In-house chef
- Flexible Working
- Private health insurance and therapy
- Workplace nursery scheme
- Onsite bar
- Large social budgets
- Enhanced parental leave
Company values
- Pave new roads, explore unknown horizons: We take calculated risks and embrace unknown territory
- Leave positive tracks: A big reason for working on autonomous vehicles is for the positive impact they can have to the environment, the lives they will save, the opportunities they will create for others and more!
- Autonomous in thought, collective in action: We are built of strong, curious individuals coming from all walks of life, but who, together, want to achieve a common goal.
- Drive each other forward: We are a company that stands strong upon the foundation which it has created. This foundation is the team, the individuals who make Wayve, Wayve.
Company HQ
London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Alex Kendall
(CEO)Has a PhD from Cambridge in Computer Vision & Robotics. Previously Research Engineer at Skydio and Advisor to Scape Technologies
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