Tech Lead - Autonomy Performance, Robotaxi

About the role

The Robotaxi team is responsible for taking Wayve's AI Driver to public-scale deployment on global ride-hail platforms. This role involves defining and owning the end-to-end performance operating system, including metrics, triage, and release gates for an autonomous driving system. You will lead cross-functional execution to ensure performance outcomes and maintain high standards for production deployments.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve the autonomy performance measurement framework for Robotaxi including metrics, dashboards, and reporting.
• Build and run the end-to-end performance improvement loop to detect issues, triage, and drive root-cause investigations.
• Lead cross-functional execution across AV core, evaluation, robotics, and SRE teams to align roadmaps to performance outcomes.
• Define and enforce performance release gates and regression detection for production deployments.
• Stay hands-on in data and code to accelerate debugging and unblock delivery.

Required skills

• Python
• C++
• SQL
• Autonomy performance debugging
• Learned systems
• ML-driven robotics
• Data-driven autonomy
• Observability stacks
• Databricks
• Grafana

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Enhanced maternity leave
• Enhanced paternity leave
• Retirement or pension
• Access to therapists
• Wellbeing partner discounts
• Learning and development budget
• Relocation support
• Visa sponsorship

About the Company

Wayve is building the leading AI platform for autonomous driving, pioneering an end-to-end AI approach that enables vehicles to learn directly from real-world experience. The company's mapless and hardware-agnostic AI platform integrates with global OEM partners to unlock advanced levels of automation.