Principal Validation Tech Lead / Manager, L4 Driverless Autonomy

Highlights

• Lead validation strategy for L4 driverless autonomy across sim and road testing.
• Build evidence linking AI Driver behavior to real-world driving performance.
• Design scalable automated validation for multiple products and deployments.

What they offer

• Salaries benchmarked against the market annually
• Meaningful equity sharing in Wayve's long-term success
• Relocation support and visa sponsorship where applicable
• Hybrid working with core hours and hands-on vehicle workshops and labs
• Learning and development support for training, conferences and growth
• Comprehensive location-dependent benefits including health coverage, family leave, retirement/pension, wellbeing and team socials

Ideal candidate

A systems thinker with deep validation experience in safety-critical autonomy who thrives in ambiguity, owns strategy end-to-end, and aligns diverse engineering stakeholders with clear evidence.

Requirements

• Significant experience validating complex automotive, autonomous-driving, robotics, aerospace or similarly safety-relevant systems
• Led validation concepts from initial ambiguity through implementation, execution and reporting
• Able to use Python to implement metrics and work within evaluation codebases, with SQL experience valuable
• Understand simulated and physical testing and make evidence-based decisions from imperfect data
• Communicate crisply, document decisions well and align technical stakeholders across disciplines
• Experience with ML, computer vision, motion planning, data science, SOTIF, safety validation or agentic AI workflows beneficial