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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 12 days Wayve's roles stay open a median of 40 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 40% of Wayve's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Wayve
- high 77 stale, 1 reposted of 169 open
- Hiring momentum
- 201 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-09-17
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Wayve's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for Wayve.
About this role
The Engineering Manager for SRE at Wayve will lead the Japan team focused on the reliability and safety of the autonomous vehicle fleet. This hands-on role involves managing a team of engineers, improving fleet health and incident response, and ensuring operational readiness while collaborating with global engineering teams. The position also requires direct involvement in technical issues and the development of scalable processes and tools to enhance fleet operations.
- benefits
- 1/5
- freshness
- 4/5
- career value
- 4/5
- role clarity
- 5/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Wayve as an employer.
What you need
- Engineering-management experience with direct accountability for a software, SRE, platform, systems or similarly technical team.
- A track record of leading and developing a team of approximately 5–10 engineers or similarly complex multidisciplinary groups.
- Practical mastery of reliability engineering, observability, incident management, release and change safety, resilience and continuous improvement.
- Strong engineering depth and current credibility 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, developing and managing performance while creating clarity, accountability and psychological safety.
Nice to have
- Experience with autonomous vehicles, robotics, automotive software, embedded or edge compute, safety-critical systems or large physical fleets.
- Knowledge of vehicle commissioning, compute or sensor integration, networking, diagnostics, data offload or over-the-air deployment.
- Familiarity with Linux, cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, telemetry pipelines, infrastructure as code and modern observability tooling.
- Experience building internal automation or platforms in Python, Go, Rust, TypeScript or a comparable language.
- Experience collaborating with Japanese automotive manufacturers, suppliers or mobility operators in a global engineering organisation.
Worth weighing
- The role requires regular onsite presence in Yokohama and is not fully remote, which may affect work-life balance.
- The position involves occasional work outside standard office hours for critical operational events, which could impact personal time.
- The job description emphasizes a hands-on approach, which may not suit candidates looking for purely managerial roles.
Summarised from Wayve's posting. Read the full original.
Listed by Wayve on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-09-17. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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