About the Role
This is a high-impact technical leadership role focused on Wayve’s Robotaxi launch. You will define the end-to-end architecture connecting vehicle telemetry and intent with real-time human operator support, balancing latency, reliability, and safety. As a foundational team member, you will set technical direction and convert deep technical decisions into impactful product features. This role offers a growth path from an individual contributor to leading a team as the program scales.
Responsibilities
- Own the architecture and technical roadmap for Remote Assistance across onboard integration, offboard services, and operator tooling/HMI.
- Define and drive the vehicle ↔ operator “contract” (data, authority bounds, fallback/MRM behaviour, and failure handling).
- Lead cross-team execution across autonomy, safety, platform/infra, and product partners, turning architecture into deliverable workstreams.
- Establish system-level quality bars (latency budgets, reliability targets, monitoring, replay/evidence, incident learning loops) for safety-critical RA operation.
- Act as the technical interface to engineering leadership and safety stakeholders, shaping how RA feeds into the evolving L4 safety case.
Requirements
- Staff-level experience building and owning real-time, safety-critical systems (e.g., AV/robotics, teleoperation, aerospace/avionics, industrial control, medical devices).
- Strong product and customer orientation; able to connect technical performance metrics to rider experience, operational outcomes, and launch readiness.
- Proven ability to lead cross-org technical roadmaps and land work across multiple teams you don’t directly manage (architecture, alignment, execution).
- Deep hands-on expertise in at least one of: low-latency video/telemetry streaming, robotics/AV system integration, control systems, or human-in-the-loop system design.
- Strong safety-first engineering instincts: failure-mode thinking, fallback/MRM design, operational constraints/ODD enforcement, and evidence-driven decision making.
- Direct experience with teleoperation / remote driving / remote assistance systems, including operator UX and authority boundaries.
- Familiarity with safety frameworks and processes relevant to autonomy (e.g., functional safety concepts, safety cases, hazard analysis).
- Experience scaling production systems in ambiguous, fast-moving environments (from prototype to operational reliability).
Skills
- Low-latency video/telemetry streaming
- Robotics/AV system integration
- Control systems
- Human-in-the-loop system design
- Teleoperation
- Remote driving
- Remote assistance systems
- Operator UX
- Authority boundaries
- Functional safety concepts
- Safety cases
- Hazard analysis
Location
- London
Work Type
- Full-time
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Staff-level
- Senior
About the Company
- Wayve is at the centre of Robotaxi launch.
