SRE Manager, Vehicle Software
Wayve · Sunnyvale, California USA
Roboticsremotemanager$276k–$311k
At a glance
Highlights
- Build the Vehicle Software SRE team from the ground up and set its strategy.
- Own reliability for onboard software deployed across vehicle platforms and markets.
- Add safer releases via automated validation, gates, rollback and resilience tests.
What they offer
- Salaries benchmarked against the market annually
- Meaningful equity
- Relocation support and visa sponsorship where applicable
- Hybrid working with core hours and hands-on work in vehicle workshops and labs
- Learning and development budgets for training, conferences and growth
- Comprehensive benefits including health insurance, dental, enhanced maternity and paternity leave, retirement/pension, therapists and team socials
Ideal candidate
An experienced engineering leader who still codes and thrives in ambiguity, passionate about autonomous vehicles and building inclusive, high-ownership cultures focused on reliability.
Requirements
- 3+ years of engineering-management experience with hiring, performance management, coaching and career development
- 8+ years building or operating complex production software with depth in SRE, production/platform engineering, embedded systems or related field
- Built or substantially reshaped an engineering team, setting technical direction and aligning partners to deliver measurable results
- Still writes production-quality code, designs systems and leads substantive code reviews
- Strong technical judgment across Linux and distributed systems
- Applied SLOs, error budgets, observability, incident management and release-safety practices to deliver measurable improvements
- Builds inclusive team culture with clear accountability, thoughtful feedback and blameless learning from incidents
- Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field, or equivalent practical experience
- remote policy
- Hybrid working with core hours
- visa sponsorship
- Visa sponsorship where applicable
Lab profile
About Wayve
London-based AI lab building embodied driving intelligence for autonomous vehicles.
What they build
- Wayve Driver embodied AI driving software
- GAIA generative world models for driving
- LINGO language-grounded driving AI
Known for
- End-to-end embodied AI for driving
- Camera-first, mapless autonomy approach
- Large-scale real-world learning and simulation
Key facts
- Founded in 2017
- Headquartered in London, UK
- Backed by SoftBank Group, NVIDIA and Microsoft
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