Engineering Manager, OS, Robot Software

Overview

As Engineering Manager for Wayve’s OS team, you lead the foundational software that powers onboard vehicle systems. You’ll shape the team’s direction, hire and develop engineers, and partner with cross-functional groups to enable the AI Driver across platforms. You drive architecture, testing, deployment, and reliability in a high-stakes embedded context. This role blends people leadership with technical judgment to deliver scalable OS foundations and platform-wide impact.

Pay / Benefits

• Hybrid working model
• Relocation support and visa sponsorship
• Equity package
• Health insurance and dental coverage
• Wellbeing programs and therapists
• Learning and development budgets

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow the team: coaching, performance management, and career progression
• Own hiring and onboarding, shaping team culture and ways of working
• Drive execution: prioritisation, programme staffing, and accountability for delivery
• Set technical direction: establish a holistic tech roadmap with leads and stakeholders
• Own Wayve’s OS foundations: drive architecture, implementation, testing, deployment, monitoring
• Enable new hardware platforms: support platform expansion with minimal performance loss
• Improve quality and iteration: implement CI, hardware-in-the-loop testing, quality gates
• Bring up new boards: collaborate with hardware partners on board bring-up
• Improve build and deployment systems: optimize for broad hardware and environments
• Scale safely: define quality metrics and automated release gates
• Collaborate across Wayve: coordinate with Vehicle Software, model development, hardware, OEM teams

Key requirements

• Strong track record leading, growing, and retaining a software or systems team
• Experience hiring, coaching, feedback, and performance management
• Owned a team roadmap with planning, prioritization, and accountability for quality and reliability
• Hands-on experience architecting and delivering embedded software for real products
• Understanding of high-performance, low-latency embedded software (C/C++)
• Solid knowledge of Linux kernel fundamentals, device trees, BSPs, embedded build/packaging, OTA deployment
• Understanding of QNX fundamentals, security, and software-in-the-loop/hardware-in-the-loop testing
• Experience developing reliable peripheral drivers for PCIe and other devices
• Ability to set direction and deliver through influence across multiple teams
• Experience managing direct reports across time zones and with external partners/vendors
• Experience with high-reliability fault-tolerance architectures (valuable)

• Cross-functional collaboration
• Influence without authority
• Strategic thinking and prioritisation
• Embedded software for real products (C/C++)
• Linux kernel and BSP fundamentals
• QNX fundamentals and testing (SiL/HiL)

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