Engineering Manager, SRE - AV Fleet

Yokohama, Japan💼 Full-time🗓 2026-10-05 → 2026-10-07

Core

Lead the Japan Fleet Reliability SRE team to ensure the safety, availability, and reliability of Wayve's autonomous vehicle fleet in Japan. (via careerplan.io/jobs/e0326b42-c48f-4511-b5aa-4f1c5a06e03f-engineering-manager-sre-av-fleet-at-wayve)

Role type

Engineering Manager, SRE

Builds

Autonomous vehicle fleet operations, reliability tooling, and automation for safe on-road availability.

Domain

Autonomous driving, automotive software, fleet operations

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Engineering management, reliability engineering, incident management, observability, team building, roadmap ownership, stakeholder communication

Preferred skills

Autonomous vehicles, robotics, embedded systems, Kubernetes, Python, Go, Rust, TypeScript, Linux, cloud infrastructure

Responsibilities

Build and coach a high-performing SRE team, lead high-severity engineering incidents, set technical direction for observability and release safety, partner with vehicle software and operations teams, represent Japan's priorities in global roadmaps.

Seniority

Manager, hands-on technical leadership

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