ЯпонияWayve
Engineering Manager, SRE – AV Fleet
1 мес. назад
ЯпонияSeniorHybrid
observabilityautomationsoftware deploymenttechnical risk managementincident responseperformance managementroadmap planningapi design
Wayve is a company building advanced AI technology for autonomous vehicles, and is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the Japan Fleet Reliability SRE team, focusing on fleet safety, reliability, and operational excellence.
About the company
- 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!
Responsibilities
- Build, coach and retain a high-performing, inclusive Japan Fleet Reliability SRE team with clear ownership and sustainable escalation coverage.
- Maximise safe on-road time by improving fleet health, incident response, release reliability and operational readiness.
- Turn recurring vehicle and software failure modes into durable engineering improvements, automation and measurable reliability targets.
- Create a scalable operating model for new vehicle platforms, Gen 3 capabilities and future commercial fleet growth in Japan.
- Represent Japan’s operational needs in global engineering priorities while bringing global standards and lessons back into local operations.
- Own team engagement, performance, hiring, onboarding, development and retention; set clear expectations and provide timely, high-quality feedback.
- Coach SREs through regular one-to-ones, growth plans and career conversations, addressing performance gaps early and fairly.
- Plan team capacity and skills against the roadmap, assign the right people to the highest-value problems and maintain a sustainable on-call and support model.
- Create psychological safety while holding a high bar for engineering quality, operational discipline, ownership and follow-through.
- Lead the team through organisational, technical and programme change with clarity, empathy and decisiveness.
- Be the accountable engineering escalation point for Japan fleet reliability, including high-severity incidents and operational risks.
- Establish clear incident command, escalation and communication practices across Fleet Operations, Vehicle Safety Operators and engineering teams.
- Improve detection, diagnosis and recovery for failures across vehicle compute, sensors, power, networking, software deployment, model delivery, data capture and offload workflows.
- Ensure post-incident reviews are blameless, evidence-based and converted into owned corrective actions, preventive controls and reusable playbooks.
- Maintain healthy on-call rotations, effective runbooks and clear handoffs across Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States.
- Define and evolve service-level indicators, service-level objectives and error budgets for the fleet’s most important operational workflows.
- Use fleet health, availability, incident, change-failure, recovery-time, data-quality and toil metrics to identify priorities and demonstrate improvement.
- Set technical direction for observability, SLI/SLOs, production readiness, release safety, automation, remote diagnostics and fleet tooling; participate directly in design and code reviews and challenge failure assumptions.
- Embed production-readiness, observability, safe change management, release validation and rollback expectations into systems used by the Japan fleet.
- Balance immediate operational needs with technical debt reduction and long-term resilience.
- Translate company and programme goals into a clear Japan Fleet Reliability roadmap, milestones, staffing plan, dependencies and measurable outcomes.
- Partner with Vehicle Software, Fleet Operations, Field Engineering, VSI/Platform Integration, Vehicle Generalization, safety, infrastructure and programme teams to move new vehicles and capabilities into stable operations.
- Drive operational readiness for new vehicle variants and capabilities, including commissioning, validation, release rollout, field support and handover into steady-state operations.
- Identify technical, people and schedule risks early; make trade-offs explicit, escalate appropriately and keep stakeholders informed without creating unnecessary process.
- Build strong, respectful relationships with Japanese OEMs, suppliers and operational partners where the role requires engineering coordination.
- Guide the design and delivery of tools, services and APIs that improve fleet visibility, health monitoring, remote diagnosis, configuration, release safety and operational control.
- Automate repetitive investigation, recovery and reporting workflows so fleet growth does not require linear headcount growth.
- Ensure tooling supports auditable decisions, clear ownership and safe operation, with appropriate access control
Conditions
- Hybrid (Yokohama, Japan).
- Work authorization in Japan is required, or eligibility for employer-supported immigration.