SRE Manager, Vehicle Software

The posting, as Wayve wrote it

Before the detail, here's the challenge you'd help us solve.

We build the embodied intelligence that moves real vehicles safely, and the ecosystem a billion machines will run on in the future. Very few people in AI can say this. Every role here, whatever the team, plugs into that.

Here’s what this particular role covers.

🛠️ About our SRE Engineering Teams

Our SRE teams build the software that brings Wayve’s autonomous-driving technology onto real vehicles. Their work connects onboard compute, sensors, networking ,fleet operations and requires systems that can be deployed, monitored and recovered reliably as we expand across vehicle platforms and markets.

🧠 Your day-to-day

• Interview, onboard and coach engineers, setting clear expectations and supporting their performance and career growth.
• Work with engineering managers and technical leads to review reliability risks, agree on ownership and prioritize the team’s work.
• Stay hands-on by designing solutions, writing production code and reviewing critical changes alongside your team.
• Lead technical investigations and incident reviews, turning findings into concrete fixes and follow-up work.
• Coordinate focused projects with Vehicle Software teams, helping them improve reliability while retaining ownership of their systems.
• Review reliability metrics and roadmap progress, adjusting priorities to reflect product milestones, fleet needs and operational risk.
• Communicate technical decisions, trade-offs and results to engineering and company leaders.

🧩 What you’ll be working on

• Building the Vehicle Software SRE team from the ground up, including its charter, team structure, hiring plan, operating model and technical strategy.
• Reliability foundations for onboard software and the workflows that deploy, configure, start, monitor and recover it across vehicle platforms and markets.
• Service-level indicators and objectives, error budgets and production-readiness standards that give teams clear measures of system health and release readiness.
• Observability, health signals and diagnostic tools that help engineers understand failures across onboard compute, sensors, networking and vehicle data.
• Safer deployment and recovery through automated validation, release gates, smoke tests, rollback mechanisms and resilience testing.
• Incident-response workflows, runbooks, escalation paths and sustainable on-call practices that reduce repeat failures and speed up recovery.
• Automation and self-service tools that reduce manual operational work and help vehicle operations scale.

🙌 You should apply if

• You have 3+ years of engineering-management experience, with direct responsibility for hiring, performance management, coaching and career development.
• You have 8+ years of experience building or operating complex production software, with depth in SRE, production engineering, platform engineering, embedded systems or a related field.
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📈 Meaningful equity, sharing in the ownership and long term success of Wayve
✈️ Relocation support and visa sponsorship where applicable
✅ Hybrid working, core hours and the chance to work hands on in vehicle workshops and labs
📚 Learning and development budgets with support for training, conferences and growth
🩺 Comprehensive benefits including health insurance, dental, enhanced maternity and paternity leave, retirement or pension where applicable, access to therapists, wellbeing partnerships, team socials and more

A quick, honest note before you apply.

Wayve is not a mature, fully-structured place with the playbook already written. Much of how we work is still being written, and if you join, you’ll help write it. That suits people who want real ownership more than people who need a settled structure from day one.

If that sounds like the kind of problem you want to spend your time on, we’d really like to hear from you.

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