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Tech Lead, Full Stack Engineer – Fleet Management

Sunnyvale, California USA

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About us   

Founded in 2017, Wayve is the leading developer of Embodied AI technology.  Our advanced AI software and foundation models enable vehicles to perceive, understand, and navigate any complex environment, enhancing the usability and safety of automated driving systems.

Our vision is to create autonomy that propels the world forward.  Our intelligent, mapless, and hardware-agnostic AI products are designed for automakers, accelerating the transition from assisted to automated driving. 

In our fast-paced environment big problems ignite us—we embrace uncertainty, leaning into complex challenges to unlock groundbreaking solutions. We aim high and stay humble in our pursuit of excellence, constantly learning and evolving as we pave the way for a smarter, safer future.

At Wayve, your contributions matter.  We value diversity, embrace new perspectives, and foster an inclusive work environment; we back each other to deliver impact.  

Make Wayve the experience that defines your career!  

The role 

As the Tech Lead, Full Stack Engineer for the Fleet Management team, you will be at the forefront of designing, building, and evolving the internal platform that enables Wayve to manage a fleet of autonomous vehicles at scale. Your work will empower our operations, engineering, and research teams by providing seamless software and configuration deployment, real-time vehicle monitoring, experiment orchestration, and comprehensive fleet analytics.

This team is solving unique full-stack challenges in the domain of fleet management, handling everything from cloud infrastructure to on vehicle embedded APIs to intuitive web interfaces that provide deep visibility into vehicle performance. Unlike traditional enterprise tooling, the systems you build will directly impact the reliability, efficiency, and scalability of our autonomous fleet, ensuring that our vehicles are always running optimally with the latest software and configurations.

Success in this role will significantly enhance Wayve’s ability to iterate quickly, deploy cutting-edge AI models, and gain deep insights into the performance of our autonomous systems.

This role is part of the Vehicle Software Engineering team and you will report to the Engineering Manager, Fleet Management.

Key Responsibilities

The Fleet Management team is a key enabler of Wayve’s autonomy development pipeline. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional stakeholders—including Research, Safety, Operations, and Infrastructure—to tackle the following challenges:

• Platform Architecture & Engineering Leadership: Drive the technical vision and execution for Fleet Management Tools, ensuring scalable, maintainable, and high-performance software solutions.
• Fleet Software & Configuration Deployment:  Develop reliable tools for deploying OTA updates of software and configurations across a fleet that may not be simultaneously online, ensuring consistent performance, minimal downtime, and rapid iteration while maintaining safety and stability.
• Vehicle Health Monitoring & Diagnostics: Create intuitive dashboards and alerting systems to provide deep visibility into vehicle status, ensuring proactive maintenance and troubleshooting.
• Data Exploration Tools: Create intuitive interfaces that allow scientists and engineers to explore and understand the data and telemetry collected from the vehicles, facilitating better decision-making and faster iterations.
• Fleet Utilization & Performance Insights: Develop reporting and analytics tools that track vehicle usage, system performance, and mission outcomes, enabling data-driven decision-making.
• Cross-Team Collaboration: Work closely with product managers, reliability engineers, and infrastructure teams to continuously improve the platform based on user needs and evolving requirements.
• Full Stack Development: Ensure the delivery and maintenance of high-quality front-end, back-end, and onboard embedded software that powers the company's internal tools, focusing on performance, scalability, and user experience.
• Technical Excellence & Mentorship: Lead by example, writing high-quality, well-tested code and mentoring other engineers to foster a culture of technical excellence.

About you  

Essential 

• Proven Technical Leadership: Experience leading technical initiatives, making architectural decisions, and mentoring engineers within a high-impact software team.
• Full-Stack Engineering Expertise: Strong experience with frontend (React, Typescript, MUI), backend (Rust, Actix Web, Swagger), and cloud infrastructure (Kubernetes, Bazel).
• IoT & Robotics Integration: Familiarity with IoT communication protocols such as IoTHub/MQTT and robotics middleware like ROS2.
• Scalability & Performance Focus: Experience designing scalable, high-performance web applications and backend systems that handle large volumes of data and interactions.
• DevOps & Infrastructure Knowledge: Experience with modern build and deployment pipelines, including Kubernetes, Envoy, and cloud-based distributed systems.

Desirable

• Autonomous Vehicle Experience: Familiarity with the unique challenges of fleet management in the self-driving domain.
• Data Engineering & Analytics: Experience building data pipelines and analytics tools to generate insights from large-scale telemetry data.
• Deep System-Level Knowledge: Background in distributed systems, networking, or low-level system programming.

This is a full-time role based in our office in Sunnyvale, CA. At Wayve we want the best of all worlds so we operate a hybrid working policy that combines time together in our offices and workshops to fuel innovation, culture, relationships and learning, and time spent working from home. We operate core working hours so you can determine the schedule that works best for you and your team.  
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We understand that everyone has a unique set of skills and experiences and that not everyone will meet all of the requirements listed above. If you’re passionate about self-driving cars and think you have what it takes to make a positive impact on the world, we encourage you to apply.

For more information visit Careers at Wayve. 

To learn more about what drives us, visit Values at Wayve 

DISCLAIMER: We will not ask about marriage or pregnancy, care responsibilities or disabilities in any of our job adverts or interviews. However, we do look to capture information about care responsibilities, and disabilities among other diversity information as part of an optional DEI Monitoring form to help us identify areas of improvement in our hiring process and ensure that the process is inclusive and non-discriminatory.