Engineering Manager, SRE – AV Fleet, Japan

Yokohama, Japan💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-05 → 2026-09-26

Core

Lead the Japan Fleet Reliability SRE team to ensure the safety, reliability, and availability of Wayve's autonomous vehicle fleet in Japan.

Role type

Senior Engineering Manager, SRE (Autonomous Vehicles)

Builds

Scalable operating models, fleet reliability tooling, and automation for Gen 3 autonomous vehicle platforms.

Domain

Autonomous Vehicles / Robotics / Automotive Software

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

Engineering management, reliability engineering, incident management, observability, roadmap ownership, team coaching, technical trade-offs, stakeholder communication

Preferred skills

Autonomous vehicles, robotics, automotive software, embedded systems, edge computing

Technologies

Fleet tooling, APIs, observability stacks, release management systems, remote diagnostics

Responsibilities

Build and coach a high-performing SRE team; maximize safe on-road time through fleet health improvements; turn failure modes into engineering improvements; create scalable operating models for new vehicle platforms; represent Japan's operational needs in global engineering priorities.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC manager with team ownership

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About Wayve

🚀 Wayve is building the leading AI platform for autonomous driving. We are pioneering an end to end AI approach that enables vehicles to learn directly from real world experience, developing the ability to adapt, generalise and improve at scale. Instead of relying on hand coded rules or pre mapped environments, our AI Driver learns to drive by understanding the world around it. The result is technology that navigates complex urban environments with intelligence, precision and natural flow, unlocking meaningful advances in both safety and efficiency. We believe autonomy represents a once in a