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SRE Manager, Vehicle Software

Wayve · Sunnyvale, California USA

Roboticsremotemanager$276k–$311k
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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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