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

Job no longer available

Autonomous mobility driven by AI

501-1000 employees

B2CB2BArtificial IntelligenceCarsTransportBig dataDeep TechRoboticsFlexible workingComputer VisionMachine LearningSaaSCloud Computing

Job no longer available

Salary not provided

C++

Rust

Senior and Expert level

San Francisco Bay Area

Remote from US

Open for remote

501-1000 employees

B2CB2BArtificial IntelligenceCarsTransportBig dataDeep TechRoboticsFlexible workingComputer VisionMachine LearningSaaSCloud Computing

Company mission

To reimagine autonomous mobility with embodies intelligence, aiming to lead the world into a new era of autonomy.

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 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 8 rounds)

Feb 2026

$1.2bn

SERIES D

May 2024

$1.1bn

SERIES C

Total funding: $2.5bn

Company benefits

Private healthcare: Choose our optional health insurance for comprehensive coverage for you and your family.
Paid time off: Paid vacation plus public holidays and additional leave programs, ensuring you have time to unwind.
Mental health resources: Through Spill, you can access therapy and mental health support.
Community and socials: Join clubs or attend team socials to connect over hobbies, sports, or just for fun.
Competitive compensation: Our compensation package includes cash and equity, making you a true partner in our success.
Learning and development: Budgets for books, courses, and company-wide training to support your continuous growth.

Company HQ

London, UK

Leadership

Alex Kendall

(Co-Founder & CEO)

Alex has a PhD from Cambridge in Computer Vision & Robotics. Prior to Wayve, he was a Research Fellow at Trinity College, a Scientific Advisor at Scape Technologies, a Research Engineer at Skydio, and a Software Engineer at Beca.

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