Tech Lead, Remote Assist - Robotaxi

This is a high-impact technical leadership role at the centre of Wayve’s Robotaxi launch. You’ll define the end-to-end architecture that connects vehicle telemetry and intent with real-time human operator support, balancing latency, reliability, and safety constraints. 

As a foundational team member in this domain, you will have a unique opportunity to set technical direction. We are specifically looking for product-oriented engineers who are adept at converting deep technical decisions into impactful product features. This role offers a clear and attractive growth path from a hands-on IC to leading a small team as the program scales.

• Own the architecture and technical roadmap for Remote Assistance across onboard integration, offboard services, and operator tooling/HMI

• Define and drive the vehicle ↔ operator “contract” (data, authority bounds, fallback/MRM behaviour, and failure handling)

• Lead cross-team execution across autonomy, safety, platform/infra, and product partners, turning architecture into deliverable workstreams

• Establish system-level quality bars (latency budgets, reliability targets, monitoring, replay/evidence, incident learning loops) for safety-critical RA operation

• Act as the technical interface to engineering leadership and safety stakeholders, shaping how RA feeds into the evolving L4 safety case

In order to set you up for success as a Tech Lead, within the robotaxi team here at Wayve, we’re looking for the following skills and experience.

• Staff-level experience building and owning real-time, safety-critical systems (e.g., AV/robotics, teleoperation, aerospace/avionics, industrial control, medical devices)

• Strong product and customer orientation; able to connect technical performance metrics to rider experience, operational outcomes, and launch readiness

• Proven ability to lead cross-org technical roadmaps and land work across multiple teams you don’t directly manage (architecture, alignment, execution)

• Deep hands-on expertise in at least one of: low-latency video/telemetry streaming, robotics/AV system integration, control systems, or human-in-the-loop system design

• Strong safety-first engineering instincts: failure-mode thinking, fallback/MRM design, operational constraints/ODD enforcement, and evidence-driven decision making

• Direct experience with teleoperation / remote driving / remote assistance systems, including operator UX and authority boundaries

• Familiarity with safety frameworks and processes relevant to autonomy (e.g., functional safety concepts, safety cases, hazard analysis)

• Experience scaling production systems in ambiguous, fast-moving environments (from prototype to operational reliability)

This is a full-time role based in our office in London.  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.