Wayve
Principal / Director, Technical Program Management — Driver Out
$299K–$373K
Sunnyvale, California USA · Hybrid · Principal · Full-time · Posted Oct 5, 2026
- Experience
- 10+ years; director-level leadership required. Experience with AV or comparable safety-critical robotics programmes.
- Education
- An engineering or computer science degree is valuable, or experience working as an engineer.
About the job
Leads the multi-year Driver Out programme, coordinating the safety, technical and operational work needed to progress Wayve’s autonomy technology from its first driver-out demonstration to a productised public-road service.
What you'll do
- Own the programme plan, critical path, dependencies, risks, milestones and launch-readiness decisions across workstreams.
- Build and lead the TPM organisation, including coaching, performance management and delivery governance.
- Coordinate senior internal teams and external partners, and communicate programme progress, risk and readiness to executives.
What they ask for
- 10+ years delivering complex technical programmes, including director-level leadership and end-to-end ownership of large, multi-year, cross-organisation programmes.
- Experience building and leading programme-management teams, including coaching, development and performance management.
- Extensive experience delivering autonomous-vehicle or comparable safety-critical robotics programmes.
- Fluency in safety cases, behaviour validation, functional safety (ISO 26262), SOTIF (ISO 21448) and safety management systems.
Nice to have
- Experience taking an AV programme to eyes-off or driverless operation, or launching a comparable safety-critical service.
- Experience collaborating with OEMs and mobility partners, including ride-hail providers; an engineering or computer science degree, or experience working as an engineer, is also valuable.
Pay
$299.1K – $373.4K (base salary)
Tools
ISO 26262, ISO 21448
AI focus
Leads delivery of an autonomous-driving programme, including driving-model performance and safety, behaviour validation, and integration toward driver-out operation.
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