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About us
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.
Our vision is to create autonomy that propels the world forward. Our intelligent, mapless, and hardware-agnostic AI products are designed for automakers, accelerating the transition from assisted to automated driving.
At Wayve, big problems ignite us—we embrace uncertainty, leaning into complex challenges to unlock groundbreaking solutions. We aim high and stay humble in our pursuit of excellence, constantly learning and evolving as we pave the way for a smarter, safer future.
At Wayve, your contributions matter. We value diversity, embrace new perspectives, and foster an inclusive work environment; we back each other to deliver impact.
Make Wayve the experience that defines your career!
The role
As the Engineering Manager for the GPU Kernel team, you’ll lead the team responsible for writing custom kernels and libraries which enable our transformer-based driving models to run efficiently on embedded GPUs and accelerators. This team works closely with ML engineers, software engineers and researchers to deploy end-to-end AI for autonomous vehicles at scale. This is an exciting opportunity to lead in several high impact, early stage projects at Wayve with the ultimate goal of enabling product deployments onto millions of customer vehicles around the world.
Key responsibilities:
- You’ll lead a multi-disciplinary team of ML GPU kernel engineers to enable efficient ML deployments across millions of customer vehicles
- Together with tech leads, you’ll set key foundational strategy on deployment frameworks, compilers, toolchains and SoCs
- You’ll set clear objectives and priorities, and allocate resource efficiently
- You’ll have opportunities to develop new skills, especially within end-to-end ML and inference optimisation
About you
In order to set you up for success as the Engineering Manager for the GPU Kernel team at Wayve, we’re looking for the following skills and experience.
Essential
- Proven experience as an Engineering Manager delivering complex engineering projects
- Experience developing GPU kernels and/or ML compilers (e.g. CUDA, OpenCL, TensorRT, MLIR, TVM, etc)
- Experience optimising systems to meet strict utilisation and latency requirements
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
Desirable
- Experience with C++ and ML frameworks such as PyTorch
- Experience with ML deployment pipelines
- Experience with embedded SoCs used in automotive environments, e.g. Nvidia, Qualcomm, Renesas, etc
This is a full-time role based in our office in Sunnyvale. At Wayve we want the best of all worlds so we operate a hybrid working policy that combines time together in our offices and workshops to fuel innovation, culture, relationships and learning, and time spent working from home. We operate core working hours so you can determine the schedule that works best for you and your team.
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We understand that everyone has a unique set of skills and experiences and that not everyone will meet all of the requirements listed above. If you’re passionate about self-driving cars and think you have what it takes to make a positive impact on the world, we encourage you to apply.
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DISCLAIMER: We will not ask about marriage or pregnancy, care responsibilities or disabilities in any of our job adverts or interviews. However, we do look to capture information about care responsibilities, and disabilities among other diversity information as part of an optional DEI Monitoring form to help us identify areas of improvement in our hiring process and ensure that the process is inclusive and non-discriminatory.
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What We Do
We're Wayve, a leading developer of embodied intelligence for autonomous vehicles. We use AI to pioneer a next-generation approach to self-driving: AV2.0, which enables fleet operators to unlock the benefits of AV technology at scale.
Founded in 2017, Wayve is made up of a diverse team of experts in machine learning and robotics. We were the first to deploy AVs on public roads with end-to-end deep learning. Today, our teams are based in London and California, and we're testing AVs in cities across the UK.
Inspired by our vision for a smarter, safer, more sustainable world, we're looking for people who are passionate about building breakthrough solutions to some of the world’s most important challenges. If you're looking for an exciting opportunity with a dynamic team, get in touch!
