Senior Technical Program Manager - AV Engineering

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 Program Management Team Wayve’s Program Management team turns complex technical goals into coordinated delivery. Working closely with engineering, research, product, safety, evaluation and release teams, we align priorities, manage dependencies and bring clarity to ambiguous challenges. We combine technical depth with cross-functional leadership to help teams move faster, more effectively and with purpose—focusing on meaningful outcomes rather than process for its own sake. As a Technical Program Manager in AV Engineering, you’ll lead the programmes that get Wayve’s AI Driver working on real vehicles. Depending on the team you join, you may support our wider Robotics organisation—across areas such as vehicle generalisation, controls and calibration—to bring the autonomy stack to a growing range of vehicle platforms and enable flagship customer programmes. Alternatively, you may lead perception, parking, ADAS or driving-feature programmes from research through to on-vehicle delivery. 🧠 Your day-to-day Partner with engineering and product leads to translate ambitious technical goals into clear, integrated plans, priorities and delivery milestones. Coordinate across software, hardware, robotics, machine learning, data, product, evaluation and release teams, keeping teams aligned around shared outcomes. Identify cross-stack dependencies, technical risks and sequencing constraints early—particularly across software and hardware boundaries—and drive mitigation plans and timely decisions. Run the planning, stand-ups, programme reviews and retrospectives needed to keep complex, multi-team delivery predictable without creating unnecessary process. Communicate progress, risks, trade-offs and decisions clearly to engineers, partners and senior leaders, tailoring the level of detail to each audience. Work closely with technical teams during critical vehicle-platform, customer-programme and feature milestones, providing hands-on programme leadership where it is most needed.

🧩 What you’ll be working on:

Owning AV Engineering programmes end-to-end, from vehicle-platform bring-up and autonomy-stack integration through to perception, parking, ADAS and driving-feature delivery. Supporting vehicle generalisation, controls and calibration programmes that enable the AI Driver to operate across an expanding range of vehicle platforms. Leading feature programmes from cutting-edge research through implementation, evaluation, release and on-vehicle deployment. Connecting technical delivery with evaluation results and product outcomes, using metrics such as signal quality, coverage and time-to-insight to assess progress and guide decisions. Supporting key customer and platform programmes by coordinating scope, readiness, dependencies and delivery across internal teams and external partners. Improving programme tooling, delivery processes and ways of working, and sharing successful approaches across the wider Program Management organisation.