Technical Program Manager, Evaluation & Validation
WayveAutonomous Driving company
London, United Kingdom$214,900 - $274,000Senior
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About the role
TL;DR
Drive delivery of AI Driver readiness programs across simulation, evaluation, and validation.
- •Drive delivery across platforms and processes that prove the AI Driver is ready for the road.
- •Your programs gate real on-road releases.
- •Key Responsibilities Drive program delivery: Own end-to-end delivery of cross-team programs spanning simulation, evaluation, and validation.
- •Sequence cross-cutting initiatives: Compose roadmaps across simulators, datasets, evaluation, and triage; manage dependencies, risks, and trade-offs.
- •Tie work to outcomes: Connect platform delivery to measurable outcomes
- •developer velocity, signal quality, cost per evaluation, time-to-insight, and validation credibility.
- •Coordinate release-gating validation: Partner with Autonomy, Science, Release, Product, and Safety on acceptance criteria and the validation that gates releases.
- •Run delivery rhythms: Run planning, reviews, and retros, and communicate progress and risk to engineers, partners, and senior leaders.
- •Requirements Bias for action: 8+ years leading complex, multi-team programs (or a strong record at this level).
- •You lead high-complexity work across teams and get things done.
- •Technically strong: Credible with engineers and scientists across simulation, evaluation, ML, and validation; you reason about how data, simulator fidelity, and metric design propagate into release confidence, even though you won't write production code.
- •Stays neutral and adapts under pressure: Effective in ambiguous, safety-critical environments; you flex your style and bring structure without slowing delivery.
- •Strong project management: Skilled at planning, prioritising, and managing risk and dependencies across teams.
- •Clear communicator & collaborator: You influence without authority across Autonomy, Science, Release, Product, and Safety.
Required skills
Technical LeadershipProject Management
Nice-to-have skills
Engineering ManagementAgileScrum
Domain expertise
automotive
Benefits & perks
equity