About the Role

Job Title: Engineering Manager, Semantic Understanding
Location: London, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type: Full-time
Department: Engineering
Workplace Type: Hybrid

Role Overview
As the Engineering Manager of Semantic Understanding, you will lead a development team focused on extracting rules from the environment that influence driving behavior. Initially, these will feed into ADAS functions such as lane assist, traffic sign detection, and ODD classification, as part of our ADAS One-Stop Shop product.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and drive the Semantic Understanding roadmap, lead technical discussions, and guide direction where needed.
• Build a resilient team that prioritizes effectively, anticipates business needs, and maintains a culture of impact.
• Understand Wayve’s end-to-end approach and how it maps to AV 1.0, highlighting key advantages.
• Dive into data analytics, construct evaluation suites, and gain in-vehicle experiences to ground your understanding of the system.
• Drive cross-functional initiatives through effective communication, working through organizational boundaries to deliver on company goals.

About You
Essential Skills and Experience

• Proven track record of managing engineering teams.
• Solid understanding of machine learning fundamentals.
• Experience with roadmap planning, stakeholder management, and requirements gathering.
• Track record of promoting software engineering best practices.
• Demonstrated ability to manage software engineers and grow their careers.
• Good foundational coding knowledge and experience.

Desirable Skills and Experience

• Experience developing ML systems.
• Experience with perception systems, trained and deployed at scale.
• Experience with offline autolabelling.
• Experience with performance evaluation of embodied AI systems.
• Development experience in Python.
• Experience developing ADAS functions.

Working Environment
This is a full-time role based in our office in London. We operate a hybrid working policy that combines time together in our offices and workshops with time spent working from home. We understand that everyone has a unique set of skills and experiences and encourage passionate individuals to apply.