Engineering Manager, SRE - AV Fleet

As Engineering Manager, you lead the Japan Fleet Reliability SRE team to ensure the safety, availability, and reliability of Wayve’s autonomous vehicle fleet in Japan. You own the team’s roadmap, hiring, and outcomes, while staying hands-on when needed to address incidents, designs, or vehicle systems. You’ll collaborate across Japan-focused and global teams to move new capabilities into stable operations and drive meaningful improvements in reliability and safety.

• Salary benchmarks aligned with market
• Meaningful equity and long-term ownership
• Relocation support and visa sponsorship
• Hybrid working with core hours
• Learning and development budgets for training and conferences
• Comprehensive benefits: health, dental, enhanced maternity/paternity leave, retirement/pension, wellbeing services

• Build and coach a high-performing, inclusive team; own hiring, performance, career development, capacity, and escalation coverage
• Improve on-road availability, incident recovery, repeat-incident reduction, and rollout reliability; reduce operational toil through tooling and automation
• Lead high-severity incidents and drive blameless post-incident reviews with durable improvements
• Set technical direction for observability, SLI/SLOs, production readiness, release safety, automation, and fleet tooling
• Partner with Vehicle Software, Fleet Operations, Field Engineering, VSI/Platform Integration, Vehicle Generalization, safety, and infrastructure teams to operationalize new capabilities
• Represent Japan’s priorities in global roadmaps; communicate risks and decisions to Japanese OEMs, suppliers, mobility partners, and Wayve leaders

• Engineering-management experience with direct accountability for a technical team (software, SRE, platform, or similar)
• Track record leading and developing a team of ~5–10 engineers or equivalent multidisciplinary groups
• Practical mastery of reliability engineering, observability, incident management, release and change safety, resilience, and continuous improvement
• Strong engineering depth in design review, debugging, automation, code review, and production systems
• Experience owning roadmaps, resourcing, dependencies, technical trade-offs, and measurable delivery outcomes
• Evidence of hiring, coaching, and managing performance with clarity, accountability, and psychological safety
• Calm, structured judgement during incidents and ability to communicate risk to senior technical and operational stakeholders
• Willingness to work onsite in Yokohama and join an engineering escalation rotation
• Permission to work in Japan, or eligibility for employer-supported immigration

• Calm and structured judgement during incidents
• Strong communication with senior stakeholders
• Psychological safety and collaborative leadership
• Reliability engineering and observability
• Incident management and release safety
• Production systems and debugging