Engineering Manager, Embedded Automotive Platforms

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 Embedded Automotive Platforms team builds portable, production-grade core libraries and standardized APIs at the boundary between our autonomy stack and real vehicle platforms. Its work enables Wayve software to run reliably across automotive reference platforms and runtime environments, including NVIDIA DRIVE Orin on Linux/QNX and Qualcomm platforms.

As Engineering Manager, EAP, you’ll lead and grow a US-based team responsible for foundational software used across real-world experiments and customer programmes. This is a hands-on management role: approximately 40% coding and design, and 60% leadership, coaching, and delivery through the team.

🧠 Your day-to-day

• Lead, recruit, and grow an embedded-software team in the US.
• Coach engineers, support career development, and set a high bar for engineering quality.
• Own the team roadmap, turning milestones into clear objectives and delivery plans.
• Align priorities with cross-functional stakeholders and maintain accountability for schedule and quality.
• Stay hands-on through architecture, design, code review, and implementation of critical components.
• Communicate progress, risks, and technical trade-offs across teams and time zones.

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