Tech Lead Manager - ML Autonomy Performance

Wayve • Sunnyvale, CA

1d • $370,040 - $394,900 • Hybrid

About The Position

The Driving team owns Wayve's core end-to-end driving model, which directly shapes how our vehicles behave on the road. We take the backbone models and build the driving heads on top, and ship them into vehicles. That makes us the team closest to production. Our work is central to Wayve's Robotaxi launches around the world, so it ties directly to our near-term commercial milestones. We iterate fast: we find the top issues we see on the road, find their root causes, and fix them through data, model and evaluation changes. We work closely with other teams to solve issues that span the model and the vehicle.

Requirements

• Managed engineers before and want to lead a team while staying deeply technical. This is a Tech Lead Manager role, not a pure management role
• Highly technical and hands-on: comfortable writing Python and doing model and data iteration yourself, not just directing others
• Delivered deployed, production ML models, or productionized ML at another company and improved a live system step by step over time
• Experience is focused on production rather than mainly on research or early-stage exploration

Nice To Haves

• Shipped and iterated on ML for robotics, autonomous vehicles or other embodied AI
• Worked on end-to-end driving models or large-scale model training

Responsibilities

• Lead a small team (up to five people) iterating on Robotaxi driving performance, balancing hands-on technical work with people leadership
• Diagnose the highest-impact issues seen on the road, find their root causes and resolve them through data and model iteration
• Own changes to data recipes, model architecture, evaluation and release readiness for the driving model
• Partner with other teams to resolve cross-functional issues, including model and vehicle interface problems
• Be one of the team's key hands-on developers, writing code and running experiments while setting the team's priorities
• Growing and shaping a small, high-impact team as the Robotaxi programme scales

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 the chance to work hands on in vehicle workshops and labs
• Learning and development budgets with support for training, conferences and growth
• Comprehensive benefits including health insurance, dental, enhanced maternity and paternity leave, retirement or pension 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