Wayve
Tech Lead Manager - ML Autonomy Performance
$370K–$395K
Sunnyvale, California USA · Hybrid · Manager · Full-time · Posted Oct 13, 2026
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About the job
Lead a small team while hands-on improving and releasing Wayve’s production end-to-end driving model for Robotaxi performance.
What you'll do
- Lead up to five people while writing code, running experiments and setting priorities.
- Diagnose on-road performance issues and address them through data and model iteration.
- Own data recipes, model architecture, evaluation and release readiness; partner on model–vehicle interface issues.
What they ask for
- Prior experience managing engineers while remaining technically hands-on.
- Strong Python skills and ability to perform model and data iteration.
- Experience delivering deployed production ML models or productionizing ML and improving a live system.
- Experience focused on production rather than primarily research or early-stage exploration.
Nice to have
- Shipped and iterated on ML for robotics, autonomous vehicles or other embodied AI.
- Experience with end-to-end driving models or large-scale model training.
Pay
$370,040 – $394,900 (base salary)
Tools
Python
AI focus
Improve production end-to-end autonomous driving ML for Robotaxis through data-led model iteration, evaluation and deployment.
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