Director of Engineering (Data)

Job Description:

Who are we

Our team is the first in the world to use autonomous vehicles on public roads using end-to-end deep learning. With our multi-national world-class technical team, we’re building things differently.

We don’t think it’s scalable to tell an algorithm how to drive through hand-coded rules and expensive HD maps. Instead, we believe that using experience and data will allow our algorithms to be more intelligent: capable of easily adapting to new environments.

Our aim is to be the future of self-driving cars: the first to deploy in 100 cities across the world bringing autonomy to everyone, everywhere.

The impact you will have

Wayve is developing next-generation autonomous driving technology, to enable autonomous transportation services. We are partnering with two of the UK’s biggest online grocery delivery fleets to trial live operations of our self-driving technology, on public roads in 2022.

As Director of Engineering (Data), you will lead our Data engineering group. This group’s mission is to improve our autonomous driving through data.

You will see to ensuring that multiple teams of Wayve’s developers and engineers can iterate quickly in developing state-of-the-art machine learning models that drive well, develop a scalable and efficient data platform, ensure that the right data is used for training, build the datasets which enable effective validation, and empower the company to make data-driven decisions. You will also lead Wayve’s efforts in developing a scalable data source for training and validation via our partners’ fleet operations. You will set the technical direction of the Data Group, ensuring that deliverables match the company objectives and providing the leadership and guidance to each of the Engineering Managers that work within the Group.

You will steer the Group’s teams (currently two, increasing in the future) and coordinate with other groups across Wayve to make sure we are building the most impactful things at pace and working with leaders across the company to ensure sustainable career growth for your teams during a period of growth in the company. This means you will:

• Define and own the technical vision, strategy and metrics in the Data group, ensuring its teams and the rest of Wayve are aligned and galvanised.
• Partner with the senior leadership team to maintain a culture of impact, performance, and health.
• Build technical capabilities across the group and develop talented engineers as Wayve grows. Build resilient and reliable systems, teams and individuals.
• Work closely with team members to develop career plans and growth trajectories based on each individual’s strengths and weaknesses and their own aspirations.
• You will be essential to Wayve’s mission, deeply enjoy what you do, take immense pride in being a part of something big, and love pushing the boundaries of what’s possible.

This role will be based in our London King’s Cross HQ.

What you’ll bring to Wayve

Essential

• Prior experience as a manager of multiple Software Engineering teams at a growing company.
• Experience managing Engineering Managers.
• Experience with roadmap planning, stakeholder management, requirements gathering and alignment with leadership towards milestones and deliverables.
• Computing fundamentals - what makes code maintainable, fast, secure and reliable.
• Experience working with large scale system design, concurrent, parallel and distributed computing.
• Experience working with image or video data at scale.
• BS or MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or similar experience.

Desirable

• Practical experience with computer vision and machine learning.
• Experience in shipping ML features, pulling new developments from research to implementation.
• Insight into training, validation, testing and metrics for deep learning features/models.
• Comfortable working with and visualising huge data sets.
• Track record of promoting engineering and infrastructure best practices.
• Hands on experience with cloud platforms, databases and distributed systems.
• Working with large scale data pipelines.
• This is our ideal candidate, but by no means the only candidate; we all have different strengths. If you don’t match 100% but believe you could do the job well, we would love to hear from you.

Our offer

• Competitive compensation with salary and equity
• Immersion in a team of world-class researchers, engineers and entrepreneurs
• A position to shape the future of autonomous driving and to tackle the biggest challenges of our time
• Benefits such as an onsite chef, workplace nursery scheme, private health insurance, therapy, daily yoga, onsite bar, large social budgets, unlimited L&D requests, enhanced parental leave, and more!

This is a full-time role based in our office in King’s Cross, but we support flexible working, including working for up to 2 weeks from anywhere in the world. We trust you to know what works best for your team and projects and ask that you have a healthy presence that enables the right meetings to happen in person and strong relationships to be built.