Technical Program Manager, Wayve
Robotaxi
2-5 days a week in office
Autonomous mobility driven by AI
Be an early applicant
Autonomous mobility driven by AI
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
2-5 days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To reimagine autonomous mobility with embodies intelligence, aiming to lead the world into a new era of autonomy.
Role
Who you are
- You have proven and demonstrable experience as a Technical Program Manager or similar role, working closely with multi-disciplinary engineering teams to successfully develop and ship products at an early stage of maturity
- You have a strong technical background, with a solid understanding of software and systems engineering principles and technologies
- You have a deep understanding of software development lifecycle and methodologies, with a track record of leading software programs using agile or iterative approaches
- You embrace the challenge of learning new technical concepts and requirements quickly, translating them into actionable work plans
- You have strong problem-solving and analytical abilities, with a detail-oriented mindset
- You have exceptional project management skills, with the ability to prioritise tasks, manage resources effectively, and deliver results within tight deadlines
- You have excellent communication and interpersonal skills, capable of building strong relationships with technical and non-technical stakeholders
- You get energy from enabling and coaching others
- You have a bias for action and thrive in a fast-paced and dynamic environment, adapting quickly to changing priorities
- You are deeply curious about building something new and relish the idea of helping to define AV2.0 and how we build it
- You consider yourself to have an optimistic and open-minded attitude towards solving problems and want to take on the challenge of AVs: the space-race of our generation!
- 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
What the job involves
- As a Technical Program Manager working with our Software organisation, you will be responsible for ensuring our core development teams are able to efficiently develop and ship the world’s first AV2.0 Driver
- Working closely with Wayve’s Engineering and Program leaders, you will enable our multi-disciplinary research and development teams to build and iterate fast
- In this role you will grow with the company and be critical in establishing what good delivery looks like across Wayve
- You will also act as a coach to others, driving a delivery-mindset and embedding good practices across teams
- Engineering Infrastructure: building and maintaining the platforms and tooling required to train and validate ML models at scale
- Onboard Systems: hardware bring-up and management; platform for inference and control; remote system management
- Embodied AI Development: feature development for commercial autonomy products
- Evaluation and Validation: workflows for fast experimentation, evaluation and reliable production delivery
- Drive the end-to-end planning, execution, and delivery of software programs, ensuring adherence to project timelines, budget, and quality standards
- Collaborate with program managers, product managers, software engineers, and other teams to define clear program requirements, scope, and success criteria
- Develop and maintain detailed project plans, identifying dependencies, risks, and mitigation strategies
- Drive effective communication and coordination among team members and stakeholders to ensure project progress, risks, and issues are properly addressed
- Track project milestones and deliverables, providing regular updates to senior management and key stakeholders
- Facilitate cross-functional collaboration, ensuring clarity, alignment and synergy among different teams
- Identify and resolve project-related issues and risks, proactively addressing any obstacles to project success
- Lead regular program reviews and provide status updates to relevant stakeholders, addressing any program-related issues, risks, and challenges
- Foster a culture of continuous improvement, leveraging lessons learned from previous programs to enhance future project execution
Salary benchmarks
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
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
May 2024
$1.1bn
SERIES C
Jan 2022
$200m
SERIES B
Total funding: $1.3bn
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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