Principal Validation Tech Lead / Manager, L4 Driverless Autonomy

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 ENGINEERING TEAMS

Wayve’s engineering teams are building the AI, robotics, simulation, data, and systems foundations needed to deploy a generalisable AI Driver safely and at scale.

ABOUT AI VALIDATION

The AI Validation team builds trust in the Wayve AI Driver. We create the strategies, metrics, test suites, and evidence used to assess learned driving behaviour across simulation and real-world testing, supporting product releases and customer programmes.

🧠 YOUR DAY-TO-DAY

• Lead validation strategy for advanced driver-assistance and autonomous-driving functions across multiple test modalities.
• Translate product and safety requirements into measurable coverage, acceptance criteria, and validation plans.
• Work hands-on with Python-based evaluation tools, metrics, simulation results, and large datasets.
• Analyse validation outcomes and communicate clear evidence to Product, Safety, Release, and Autonomy Engineering stakeholders.
• Coordinate dependencies across data, simulation, evaluation, and engineering teams so validation can run reliably at scale.
• Provide technical leadership and raise the quality bar for systems validation in ambiguous, fast-moving programmes.

🧩 WHAT YOU’LL BE WORKING ON

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