Director, AV Product Engineering

Wayve·Sunnyvale, California USA·Remote·Posted 26 October 2026

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Before the detail, here's the challenge you'd help us solve. We build the embodied intelligence that moves real vehicles safely, and the ecosystem a billion machines will run on in the future. Very few people in AI can say this. Every role here, whatever the team, plugs into that. Here’s what this particular role covers. THE ROLE As Director of Engineering you will manage the Product Engineering group within our AI Engineering organisation. You will report to the VP of Autonomy. There are four divisions within Autonomy: - Core AV Technology – Foundation model, model architecture, learning foundations. - Robotics Technology – Sensing, control, vehicle adaptability technology. - Product Engineering – This role – NoA, active safety, parking product development. - Release – Coordinate and automate software + model releases to application teams. The role is on the critical path to the financial success of the business. You are responsible for taking AI model backbones and delivering an autonomous vehicle capability roadmap with production-level quality. This includes collecting, filtering and selecting the most relevant training data; and then training, tuning,…

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