Wayve

Robotaxi

TechLead,AutonomyPerformance

£115–165k ~AI est. London, England, United Kingdom Remote Friendly
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“Tech Lead, Autonomy Performance at Wayve. Skills: Autonomy performance, Learned systems, Robotics performance. Own and evolve autonomy performance measurement framework. Build and run performance improvement loop”

What You'll Achieve.

Measurable improvements in production; Land measurable improvements

Industry & Context.

Robotaxi
Problems you'll solve

Root-cause investigation; Debugging; Troubleshooting

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

Cross-functional engineering leadership, Product and customer focus, Autonomy/robotics performance debugging, Technical foundations in learned systems, Production fluency in Python, C++ and SQL

Nice to Have

Owning or co-owning releases to a fleet, Familiarity with modern data/observability stacks, Building scalable triage systems and performance programs

What You'll Do.

Own and evolve autonomy performance measurement framework

Build and run performance improvement loop

Triage and prioritise issues

Drive root-cause investigations

Ensure fixes land across systems

Define and enforce performance release gates

Monitor post-release performance

Follow through on incidents

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Cross-functional execution; Aligning roadmaps

Communication Scope

Leadership narrative

Process & Methodology

Roadmap planning

Full Job Description

About us Founded in 2017, Wayve is the leading developer of Embodied AI technology. Our advanced AI software and foundation models enable vehicles to perceive, understand, and navigate any complex environment, enhancing the usability and safety of automated driving systems. Our vision is to create autonomy that propels the world forward. Our intelligent, mapless, and hardware-agnostic AI products are designed for automakers, accelerating the transition from assisted to automated driving. In our fast-paced environment big problems ignite us—we embrace uncertainty, leaning into complex challenges to unlock groundbreaking solutions. We aim high and stay humble in our pursuit of excellence, constantly learning and evolving as we pave the way for a smarter, safer future. At Wayve, your contributions matter. We value diversity, embrace new perspectives, and foster an inclusive work environment; we back each other to deliver impact. Make Wayve the experience that defines your career! The role This is a high-impact technical leadership role and a key founding member position at the centre of Wayve’s Robotaxi launch, providing a unique opportunity to set direction and definition for the autonomy performance function. We are specifically looking for product-oriented engineers who will own the autonomy performance bar that determines whether the product is ready for the public and stays great release over release. You’ll turn messy real-world driving signals into trusted metrics, a prioritised funnel of issues, and cross-team execution that lands measurable improvements in production. This is an opportunity to define “performance” for an end-to-end learned driving system where traditional AV playbooks don’t translate cleanly, with visibility and influence across the teams shaping the stack. This is primarily hands-on IC, with a clear growth path and expectation to transition into leading a small team as the Robotaxi program scales. Key responsibilities: Own and evolve the auto

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