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Engineering Manager, Runtime Platform, Robot Software

London, United Kingdom💼 Full-time🗓 2026-08-14 → 2026-09-25

Core

Lead the Runtime Platform team to build application frameworks, middleware, and observability foundations for Wayve's real-time AI Driver.

Role type

Engineering Manager, Runtime Platform

Builds

Application frameworks, IPC/middleware layers, performance monitoring, and observability tools for on-vehicle AI systems

Domain

Automotive AI / Robotics / Embedded Systems

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

Engineering management, team hiring and growth, roadmap planning, embedded software architecture, real-time scheduling, IPC/middleware design, performance profiling

Preferred skills

Automotive or robotics domain experience, micro-kernel/RTOS knowledge, NVIDIA/Qualcomm compute platform experience

Technologies

C++, embedded Linux, QNX, pprof, perf, Nsight, OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Datadog, NVIDIA Orin/Thor, Qualcomm platforms

Responsibilities

Coach and grow the team, own hiring and onboarding, drive execution and delivery accountability, set technical direction for runtime foundations, collaborate with Vehicle Software and hardware teams

Seniority

Manager, hands-on technical leadership

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