Engineering Manager, Wayve

Onboard Software Test Automation

Salary not provided

C++

Rust

Senior and Expert level

San Francisco Bay Area

Remote from US

Open for remote

Autonomous mobility driven by AI

Be an early applicant

Autonomous mobility driven by AI

201-500 employees

B2CB2BArtificial IntelligenceCarsTransportBig dataDeep TechRoboticsFlexible workingComputer VisionMachine LearningSaaSCloud Computing

Be an early applicant

Salary not provided

C++

Rust

Senior and Expert level

San Francisco Bay Area

Remote from US

Open for remote

201-500 employees

B2CB2BArtificial IntelligenceCarsTransportBig dataDeep TechRoboticsFlexible workingComputer VisionMachine LearningSaaSCloud Computing

Company mission

To reimagine autonomous mobility through embodied intelligence.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

A testing mindset
Experience leading a software quality or test automation team, preferably in embedded systems, robotics, or hardware-integrated software environments
Strong technical background in developing or maintaining scalable automated test frameworks
Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills across engineering and product domains

Desirable

Experience with automotive-grade or safety-adjacent systems (e.g., HIL, SIL, FMEA, hardware diagnostics)
Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, telemetry and observability stacks, or deployment systems for embedded software
Background in autonomous systems, AV validation, or hardware-in-the-loop testing infrastructure
Exposure to Python-based test orchestration, fuzz testing, or simulation tools
Track record of mentoring engineers and building healthy, high-performance team cultures
Deep understanding of test strategies for complex systems: from unit to integration to end-to-end testing
Experience working with high-performance, multi-threaded systems and low-level software (e.g., C++, Rust)

What the job involves

The Manager of the Onboard Software Test team leads the design, build, and scaling of our automated test suites for our internal production fleet
Their team helps ensure the reliability, performance, and safety of the software that runs on our autonomous vehicle (AV) development platforms
The internal production fleet is critical to our data gathering efforts and model experimentation. The reliability of our software directly impacts the reliability of our fleet
You’ll collaborate with technical leads across Vehicle Software, Inference, AV Stack, and Reliability Engineering to embed automated testing into our development workflow and help define and execute on a roadmap that enables Wayve to scale safely and swiftly
Build and lead our internal test team
Team leadership and strategic planning
Mentorship and talent development
Partnering with Development leads to drive our testing strategy

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.

Kirsty

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

Top investors

28% female employees

24% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (4.6)

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 HQ

London, UK

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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