Wayve
Director, AV Product Engineering
$348K–$403K
Sunnyvale, California USA · Director · Full-time · Posted Oct 26, 2026
- Education
- BS or MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or similar experience.
- Visa sponsorship
- Visa sponsorship where applicable.
About the job
Leads Wayve’s Product Engineering group, delivering production-quality autonomous driving, active safety, and parking capabilities from AI models across OEM partners.
What you'll do
- Set technical vision, strategy, metrics, and data curricula for the group’s autonomy products.
- Lead multiple teams of 50+ employees, guide Engineering Managers, and develop technical capabilities and talent.
- Drive evaluation-led execution, resource planning, and delivery of the autonomous vehicle capability roadmap.
What they ask for
- Delivered successful autonomy products relying on complex AI models.
- Experience leading complex teams, including multiple management layers or matrixed teams.
- Autonomy product experience in autopilot/navigation, active safety, or parking.
- Product roadmap and leadership/business communication, program planning and execution 1–2 years out, and engineering practices including development, testing, and serviceability.
Nice to have
- Experience applying foundation models to product features, working with multiple automotive OEMs, or GenAI simulation.
- Experience with cloud platforms, databases, or large scale data pipelines.
Pay
$347.5K – $402.7K (base salary)
AI focus
Leads development and production delivery of AI-based autonomous driving products, including data selection, model training, tuning, debugging, and evaluation.
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