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Wayve is building an AI platform for autonomous driving using end-to-end learning from real-world experience. As Engineering Manager for the Japan Fleet Reliability SRE team, you will lead a team of approximately 5–10 engineers responsible for the reliability, safety, and availability of Wayve's autonomous vehicle fleet in Japan.
You will own your team's people management, technical roadmap, and reliability outcomes. This is a hands-on role where you contribute directly to engineering work, incident response, and system design when needed. Your impact is measured by team and system outcomes, not by time spent coding.
Key responsibilities include:
- Building, coaching, and retaining a high-performing team; owning hiring, performance management, career development, and sustainable escalation coverage
- Improving on-road availability, detection and recovery, repeat-incident rates, software and model rollout reliability, and data workflows
- Leading high-severity incidents and ensuring blameless reviews produce measurable, owned improvements
- Setting technical direction for observability, SLI/SLOs, production readiness, release safety, automation, remote diagnostics, and fleet tooling
- Participating in design and code reviews
- Partnering with Vehicle Software, Fleet Operations, Field Engineering, and other teams to move new vehicles and capabilities into stable operations
- Representing Japan's priorities in global roadmaps and communicating risks to Japanese OEMs, suppliers, and Wayve leadership
You will work in a hybrid model with regular onsite presence in Yokohama and participate in engineering escalation rotation. Wayve operates main hubs in London, Sunnyvale, Yokohama, Herzliya, Vancouver, and Leonberg.
Requirements:
Essential:
- Engineering-management experience with direct accountability for a software, SRE, platform, systems, or similarly technical team
- Track record of leading and developing a team of approximately 5–10 engineers or similarly complex multidisciplinary groups
- Practical mastery of reliability engineering, observability, incident management, release and change safety, resilience, and continuous improvement
- Strong engineering depth and current credibility in design review, debugging, automation, code review, and production systems
- Experience owning roadmaps, resourcing, dependencies, technical trade-offs, and measurable delivery outcomes
- Evidence of hiring, coaching, developing, and managing performance while creating clarity, accountability, and psychological safety
- Calm, structured judgment during incidents and ability to communicate risk clearly to senior, technical, and operational stakeholders
- Willingness to work regularly onsite in Yokohama and join engineering escalation rotation
- Permission to work in Japan or eligibility for employer-supported immigration
Desirable:
- Experience with autonomous vehicles, robotics, automotive software, embedded or edge compute, safety-critical systems, or large physical fleets
- Vehicle commissioning, compute or sensor integration, networking, diagnostics, data offload, or over-the-air deployment experience
- Linux, cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, telemetry pipelines, infrastructure as code, and modern observability tooling
- Building internal automation or platforms in Python, Go, Rust, TypeScript, or comparable languages
- Experience collaborating with Japanese automotive manufacturers, suppliers, or mobility operators in a global engineering organization
