Engineering Manager, Runtime Platform, Robot Software

Wayve • Sunnyvale, CA

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

Wayve is building embodied AI that can drive any vehicle, anywhere. Our AI Driver operates onboard the vehicle in real time, supported by the application frameworks, middleware, performance capabilities and observability foundations owned by the Runtime Platform team. This growing function is becoming a dedicated team, and you’ll be the Engineering Manager responsible for leading it. Other onboard components depend on the frameworks, inter-process communication layers, monitoring and performance capabilities your team delivers. The team’s work is central to scaling Wayve’s AI Driver across new vehicles, OEM programes and other embodiments.

Requirements

• You have a strong track record of leading, growing, engaging and retaining a high-performing software or systems team
• You have experience hiring, coaching, providing feedback, managing performance and supporting engineers’ career development
• You have owned a team roadmap and delivered through others, including planning, prioritisation, resourcing and accountability for quality and operational reliability
• You have hands-on experience architecting and delivering embedded software shipped in a physical product to real customers
• You understand high-performance, low-latency embedded software developed in C++ and can earn the trust of senior systems engineers without needing to be the team’s top individual contributor
• You understand profiling, benchmarking, latency, throughput, memory-bandwidth analysis and real-time scheduling on embedded Linux
• You have a strong understanding of middleware used in high-throughput, real-time or robotics systems, including the trade-offs across vendors and platforms
• You can establish direction and deliver through influence across multiple stakeholder teams

Nice To Haves

• Automotive, robotics or another safety-relevant, real-time domain
• QNX, a microkernel architecture or another real-time operating system
• Profiling tools such as pprof/gperftools, perf, Nsight or NVLumo
• Observability platforms such as OpenTelemetry, Grafana or Datadog
• NVIDIA Orin or Thor compute platforms
• Qualcomm compute platforms

Responsibilities

• Leading and developing the team: Run effective one-to-ones, set clear expectations, provide regular high-quality feedback, manage performance and support career development against Wayve’s career framework
• Hiring and building the team: Own hiring and onboarding, ensure the right people are in the right roles, and shape the team’s culture and ways of working
• Driving execution: Staff committed programmes, align the roadmap with available resources, prioritise effectively and hold the team accountable for delivery, quality and operational reliability
• Setting technical direction: Establish a clear, holistic direction and ownership of technology-roadmap milestones in partnership with technical leads and stakeholders
• Owning runtime foundations: Guide the team’s work across system design, application frameworks, middleware and IPC, performance optimisation, measurement and observability
• Enabling new vehicle platforms: Support additional vehicle platforms through incremental development while minimizing performance degradation
• Strengthening quality and iteration: Implement and maintain strong continuous integration, hardware-in-the-loop testing and internal quality gates
• Collaborating across Wayve: Partner with Vehicle Software, model development, hardware and OEM programe teams
• Unblocking delivery: Cascade the roadmap, surface risks and dependencies early, and act as the team’s point of escalation

Benefits

• Salaries benchmarked against the market annually
• Meaningful equity, sharing in the ownership and long-term success of Wayve
• Relocation support and visa sponsorship where applicable
• Hybrid working, core hours and opportunities to work hands-on in vehicle workshops and labs
• Learning and development budgets, with support for training, conferences and professional growth
• Comprehensive benefits, including health insurance, dental coverage, enhanced maternity and paternity leave, retirement or pension support where applicable, access to therapists, wellbeing partnerships, team socials and more

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed