Director, AV Product Engineering

About the Position

Director, AV Product Engineering

Location

Sunnyvale, California, USA

Employment Type

Full time

Department

AV Engineering

Compensation

• Estimated Base Salary: $347.5K – $402.7K

About the Role

At Wayve, we are building the embodied intelligence that moves real vehicles safely, and the ecosystem a billion machines will run on in the future. As Director of Engineering, you will manage the Product Engineering group within our AI Engineering organization. You will report to the VP of Autonomy and play a critical role in delivering an autonomous vehicle capability roadmap with production-level quality.

Responsibilities

• Manage the Product Engineering group and lead multiple teams (50+ permanent employees) covering Driving, ADAS, Parking, HMI functionality.
• Define and own the technical vision, strategy, and metrics for your area, ensuring alignment and galvanization across Wayve.
• Frame autonomous driving as a problem that can be solved by data. Define efficient data curriculums to ensure product feature and geographical coverage.
• Drive an evaluation-driven culture to reach KPI targets with high predictability and resource efficiency.
• Partner with the senior leadership team to maintain a culture of impact, performance, and health.
• Build technical capabilities across the division and develop talented engineers as Wayve grows. Build resilient and reliable systems, teams, and individuals.
• Work closely with team members to develop career plans and growth trajectories based on each individual’s strengths and weaknesses and their own aspirations.

Requirements

Essential

• Experience delivering successful autonomy products that rely on complex AI models.
• Management experience leading complex teams, e.g., multiple management layers or matrixed.
• Domain skills: experience with autonomy products – autopilot/navigation, active safety, parking.
• Product delivery skills: roadmap articulation, interface with leadership & business functions.
• Execution skills: resource allocation, program planning and execution 1-2 years out.
• Engineering skills: code development practices, testing, serviceability.
• Education: BS or MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or similar experience.

Desirable

• Experience applying foundation models to implement specific product features.
• Experience working with multiple automotive OEMs.
• Experience with GenAI simulation.
• Experience with cloud platforms, databases, large-scale data pipelines.

We Offer

• Competitive salary
• 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

About the Company

🚀 Wayve is building the leading AI platform for autonomous driving. We are pioneering an end-to-end AI approach that enables vehicles to learn directly from real-world experience, developing the ability to adapt, generalize, and improve at scale. Our AI Driver learns to drive by understanding the world around it. The result is technology that navigates complex urban environments with intelligence, precision, and natural flow, unlocking meaningful advances in both safety and efficiency.

Our ambition is to make autonomy universal. Wayve’s mapless and hardware-agnostic AI platform integrates with global OEM partners, enabling continuous software evolution and unlocking advanced levels of automation from L2 plus through to L4 as our core AI model scales. In a race increasingly defined by intelligence and real-world learning, Wayve is taking a distinct approach, building a generalizable driving intelligence that can power any vehicle, anywhere. By combining embodied AI with scalable deployment, we are creating technology that can be shaped to each OEM brand and driver experience, accelerating the transition to a safer, more intelligent future of mobility.

How We Work 💻

Our main hubs are in London, Sunnyvale, Yokohama, Herzliya, Vancouver, and Leonberg. We operate a hybrid working model that combines in-person collaboration in our dedicated office spaces with focused time working remotely. This gives our teams the connection and energy of working together, alongside the flexibility to do their best work in a way that fits their lives.

Diversity and Inclusion

At Wayve, we are committed to creating a diverse, fair, and respectful culture that is inclusive of everyone based on their unique skills and perspectives, and regardless of sex, race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic, or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding) or any other basis as protected by applicable law.

For more information, visit Careers at Wayve. To learn more about what drives us, visit Values at Wayve.

DISCLAIMER: We will not ask about marriage or pregnancy, care responsibilities, or disabilities in any of our job adverts or interviews. However, we do look to capture information about care responsibilities and disabilities among other diversity information as part of an optional DEI Monitoring form to help us identify areas of improvement in our hiring process and ensure that the process is inclusive and non-discriminatory.

Compensation Range: $347.5K - $402.7K