- Robot type
- Autonomous Vehicle
- Location
- SunnyvaleCaliforniaUSA
- Job type
- Product
- Posted
- Sep 4, 2026
Full-time
Principal / Director, Technical Program Management — Driver Out
Job description
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.
Job responsibilities
- Own the Driver Out program end-to-end: Define and drive the multi-year plan and milestones - from the first driver-out demonstration to public-road product integration and minimal scaling - from concept to operation.
- Lead the program org: Build, coach, and grow the TPM team across the program; set the operating model and hold workstream leads to account.
- Drive the critical path: Turn a complex set of “must be true” conditions into a sequenced plan; own dependencies, risk, and trade-offs across every workstream.
- Own the safety-critical spine: Bring the safety case, behaviour validation, functional safety (ISO 26262), SOTIF (ISO 21448), cybersecurity, and the Safety Management System together into a credible, signed-off…
- Partner across the company and externally: Align engineering, science, safety, product, and operations - and external partners (OEMs, Uber) - on scope, sequencing, and readiness.
- Establish scalable practices: Governance, milestone and launch-readiness reviews, KPIs and dashboards, escalations, and risk-budget management.
- Represent Driver Out at the top: Report progress, risk, and readiness to the executive team, and steer the biggest calls.