Wayve
Tech Lead - Remote Assist, Robotaxi
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Wayve: Technical Lead for Remote Assistance
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.
About our Robotaxi Teams
The Robotaxi team is building the capabilities that take Wayve's AI Driver from assisted to fully driver-out operation. Remote Assistance sits at the heart of this effort, the real-time bridge between the vehicle's autonomy stack and human operators that lets us safely handle the moments the AI Driver can't resolve alone. This team owns the end-to-end architecture connecting onboard vehicle systems, offboard services, and operator tooling, balancing latency, reliability, and safety at every step.
Your day-to-day
- Own the architecture and technical roadmap for Remote Assistance across onboard integration, offboard services, and operator tooling/HMI
- Define and drive the vehicle–operator "contract" - covering data, authority bounds, fallback/MRM behaviour, and failure handling
- Lead cross-team execution across autonomy, safety, platform/infra, and product partners, turning architecture into deliverable workstreams
- Set system-level quality bars for safety-critical RA operation - latency budgets, reliability targets, monitoring, replay/evidence, and incident learning loops
- Act as the technical interface to engineering leadership and safety stakeholders, shaping how Remote Assistance feeds into Wayve's evolving L4 safety case
What you'll be working on:
- The end-to-end Remote Assistance system onboard vehicle integration, offboard services, and the operator-facing HMI, designed to evolve as one connected system
- Low-latency telemetry and video streaming between vehicle and operator, with hard constraints on glass-to-glass latency and data freshness
- Fallback and minimal risk manoeuvre (MRM) design — the failure-handling logic that keeps operation safe when things don't go to plan
- Decomposing a cross-org architecture into concrete workstreams, some delivered directly and others placed on autonomy, safety, infra, and platform teams' roadmaps
- Building Remote Assistance's contribution to Wayve's L4 safety case, working closely with the safety organisation
You should apply if:
- You have staff-level experience building and owning real-time, safety-critical systems in AV/robotics, teleoperation, aerospace/avionics, industrial control, medical devices, or a comparable domain
- You bring a strong product and customer orientation, and can connect technical performance metrics to rider experience and launch readiness
- You've led cross-org technical roadmaps and landed work across multiple teams you didn't directly manage through architecture, alignment, and execution
- You have deep hands-on expertise in at least one of: low-latency video/telemetry streaming, robotics/AV system integration, control systems, or human-in-the-loop system design
- You have strong safety-first engineering instincts, failure-mode thinking, fallback/MRM design, operational constraint enforcement, and evidence-driven decision making
- You have direct experience with teleoperation, remote driving, or remote assistance systems, including operator UX and authority boundaries
- You're comfortable scaling production systems in ambiguous, fast-moving environments, from prototype through to operational reliability
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More about Wayve
🚗 Wayve is building the leading AI platform for autonomous driving. We are pioneering an end-to-end AI approach that enables vehicles to learn directly from real-world experience, developing the ability to adapt, generalize, and improve at scale. Instead of relying on hand-coded rules or pre-mapped environments, our AI Driver learns to drive by understanding the world around it. The result is technology that navigates complex urban environments with intelligence, precision, and natural flow, unlocking meaningful advances in both safety and efficiency.
Our ambition is to make autonomy universal. Wayve's mapless and hardware-agnostic AI platform integrates with global OEM partners, enabling continuous software evolution and unlocking advanced levels of automation from L2 plus through to L4 as our core AI model scales. In a race increasingly defined by intelligence and real-world learning, Wayve is taking a distinct approach, building a generalizable driving intelligence that can power any vehicle, anywhere. By combining embodied AI with scalable deployment, we are creating technology that can be shaped to each OEM brand and driver experience, accelerating the transition to a safer, more intelligent future of mobility.
How we work 💻 — Locations & Flexible Working
Our main hubs are in London, Sunnyvale, Yokohama, Herzliya, Vancouver, and Leonberg. We operate a hybrid working model that combines in-person collaboration in our dedicated office spaces with focused time working remotely. This gives our teams the connection and energy of working together, alongside the flexibility to do their best work in a way that fits their lives.
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The Interview Process
Our process is clear and respectful of your time:
- Initial call / recruiter screen (30 mins)
- Hiring manager chat (30 mins)
- Deep-Dive technical interviews (Product sense, domain and system design) (3 hours total)
- Final interview: mission & values alignment (45 minutes)
We'll always explain the format and work around your availability.
What's in it for you (Location dependent)
- 💰 Salaries benchmarked against the market annually
- 📈 Meaningful equity, sharing in the ownership and long-term success of Wayve
- ✈️ Relocation support and visa sponsorship where applicable
- ✅ Hybrid working, core hours, and the chance to work hands-on in vehicle workshops and labs
- 📚 Learning and development budgets with support for training, conferences, and growth
- 🩺 Comprehensive benefits including health insurance, dental, enhanced maternity and paternity leave, retirement or pension where applicable, access to therapists, wellbeing partner discounts, and more
A quick, honest note before you apply.
Wayve is not a mature, fully-structured place with the playbook already written. Much of how we work is still being written, and if you join, you’ll help write it. That suits people who want real ownership more than people who need a settled structure from day one.
If that sounds like the kind of problem you want to spend your time on, we’d really like to hear from you.
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.
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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