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Automotive Security Product Lead

Necessary Ventures
Sunnyvale, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 6/25/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 7/22/2026
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Automotive Security Product Lead

London, United Kingdom

Commercial & Operations

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 a Technical Program Manager working with our Software organisation, you will be responsible for ensuring our core development teams are able to efficiently develop and ship the world’s first AV2.0 Driver. Working closely with Wayve’s Engineering and Program leaders, you will enable our multi-disciplinary research and development teams to build and iterate fast. In this role you will grow with the company and be critical in establishing what good delivery looks like across Wayve. You will also act as a coach to others, driving a delivery-mindset and embedding good practices across teams.

Key Responsibilities

  • Engineering Infrastructure: building and maintaining the platforms and tooling required to train and validate ML models at scale
  • Onboard Systems: hardware bring-up and management; platform for inference and control; remote system management
  • Embodied AI Development: feature development for commercial autonomy products
  • Evaluation and Validation: workflows for fast experimentation, evaluation and reliable production delivery

This Means You Will

  • Drive the end-to-end planning, execution, and delivery of software programs, ensuring adherence to project timelines, budget, and quality standards.
  • Collaborate with program managers, product managers, software engineers, and other teams to define clear program requirements, scope, and success criteria.
  • Develop and maintain detailed project plans, identifying dependencies, risks, and mitigation strategies.
  • Drive effective communication and coordination among team members and stakeholders to ensure project progress, risks, and issues are properly addressed.
  • Track project milestones and deliverables, providing regular updates to senior management and key stakeholders.
  • Facilitate cross-functional collaboration, ensuring clarity, alignment and synergy among different teams.
  • Identify and resolve project-related issues and risks, proactively addressing any obstacles to project success.
  • Lead regular program reviews and provide status updates to relevant stakeholders, addressing any program-related issues, risks, and challenges.
  • Foster a culture of continuous improvement, leveraging lessons learned from previous programs to enhance future project execution.

About You

In order to set you up for success as a Technical Program Manager at Wayve, we’re looking for the following skills and experience.

Essential

  • You have proven and demonstrable experience as a Technical Program Manager or similar role, working closely with multi-disciplinary engineering teams to successfully develop and ship products at an early stage of maturity.
  • You have a strong technical background, with a solid understanding of software and systems engineering principles and technologies.
  • You have a deep understanding of software development lifecycle and methodologies, with a track record of leading software programs using agile or iterative approaches.
  • You embrace the challenge of learning new technical concepts and requirements quickly, translating them into actionable work plans.
  • You have strong problem-solving and analytical abilities, with a detail-oriented mindset.
  • You have exceptional project management skills, with the ability to prioritise tasks, manage resources effectively, and deliver results within tight deadlines.
  • You have excellent communication and interpersonal skills, capable of building strong relationships with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • You get energy from enabling and coaching others.
  • You have a bias for action and thrive in a fast-paced and dynamic environment, adapting quickly to changing priorities.
  • You are deeply curious about building something new and relish the idea of helping to define AV2.0 and how we build it.
  • You consider yourself to have an optimistic and open-minded attitude towards solving problems and want to take on the challenge of AVs: the space-race of our generation!

This is a full-time role based in our office in Sunnyvale. 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.

Wayve is committed to creating an inclusive interview experience. If you require any accommodations or adjustments to participate fully in our interview process, please let us know.

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.

At Wayve we're committed to creating a diverse, fair and respectful culture that is inclusive of everyone based on their unique skills and perspectives, and regardless of sex, race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding) or any other basis as protected by applicable law.

For more information visit Careers at Wayve.

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

For US candidates only, please visit E-Verify Notice and Participation and Right to Work

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.

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