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Tech Lead Manager - ML Autonomy Performance

Wayve · Sunnyvale, California USA

Roboticsremotelead$370k–$395k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Lead a small team iterating on Robotaxi driving performance for global launches.
  • Own the end-to-end driving model that powers Wayve's Robotaxi product worldwide.
  • Diagnose top on-road issues and close gaps via data and model iteration.

What they offer

  • Salaries benchmarked against the market annually
  • Meaningful equity sharing in ownership and 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 budgets for training and conferences
  • Comprehensive benefits including health insurance, dental, enhanced parental leave, pension, therapists and team socials

Ideal candidate

A hands-on technical leader who thrives owning production ML systems and coaching a small, high-impact team. You care about real-world autonomy and fast, data-led iteration toward Robotaxi launches.

Requirements

  • Managed engineers before and wants to lead a team while staying deeply technical
  • Highly technical and hands-on, comfortable writing Python and doing model and data iteration
  • Delivered deployed production ML models and improved a live system step by step over time
  • Experience focused on production rather than mainly research or early-stage exploration
  • Shipped and iterated on ML for robotics, autonomous vehicles or other embodied AI (desirable)
  • Worked on end-to-end driving models or large-scale model training (desirable)
remote policy
Hybrid working with core hours
visa sponsorship
Visa sponsorship available 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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