Technology Lead / Manager (Trajectory Generation and Controls, AV Engineering)

Join Wayve, a leading company in autonomous vehicle technology. As a Technology Lead/Manager, you will lead the Controls team, guiding them in delivering robust real-world vehicle motion across our product platforms. You will own the team's technical roadmap, interface with the Wayve AI Driver, and shape the future direction of the team. This is a high-impact opportunity to work at the intersection of control, AI, and real-world vehicle behavior.

• Lead and develop the Motion Controls team, providing strong people leadership, technical direction, and clear priorities for an experienced and growing group of engineers.
• Own the team’s technical roadmap and delivery across short and long term horizons, translating product and system needs into clear priorities, technical plans, and timely execution.
• Shape the future direction and growth of the team to address emerging challenges at the intersection of control, AI, and real-world vehicle behavior.
• Experience building, shipping, and maintaining production systems, including translating product and system requirements into technical plans and execution
• Experience working on production systems that incorporate machine learning models, ideally in domains such as prediction, trajectory generation, planning, or control
• Expertise in controls, trajectory generation, motion planning, or closely related autonomy problems, including strong understanding of physical system dynamics, closed-loop behavior, and controller design tradeoffs
• Experience leading technical direction for complex autonomy, robotics, or other physical AI systems, ideally in autonomous vehicles or a closely related domain
• Strong software engineering fundamentals, with experience delivering high-quality production code and setting a high technical bar for others
• Experience working across system boundaries, with the ability to consider factors across software, platform, and physical boundaries
• Experience managing or leading engineers including setting priorities, driving execution, and supporting their growth and performance
• Experience managing engineers and growing teams
• Experience working in production release environments, ideally involving real hardware or multiple platforms
• Experience with Python and C++ in production autonomy or robotics systems
• Experience with automotive-grade software development processes or safety-related standards such as ISO26262 or SOTIF
• If you’re passionate about self-driving cars and think you have what it takes to make a positive impact on the world, we encourage you to apply
• Experience with classical search- or optimization-based motion planning, optimal control, MPC, or related motion-generation methods