Tech Lead, Remote Assist - Robotaxi

Salary: £60,000 - 60,000 per year

Requirements:

• Staff-level experience building and owning real-time, safety-critical systems such as AV/robotics, teleoperation, aerospace/avionics, industrial control, or medical devices
• Strong product and customer orientation, with the ability to connect technical performance metrics to rider experience, operational outcomes, and launch readiness
• Proven ability to lead cross-org technical roadmaps and deliver work across multiple teams not directly managed
• Deep hands-on expertise in at least one of the following: low-latency video/telemetry streaming, robotics/AV system integration, control systems, or human-in-the-loop system design
• Strong safety-first engineering instincts, including failure-mode thinking, fallback/MRM design, operational constraints/ODD enforcement, and evidence-driven decision making
• Direct experience with teleoperation, remote driving, or remote assistance systems, including operator UX and authority boundaries
• Familiarity with safety frameworks and processes relevant to autonomy, such as functional safety concepts, safety cases, and hazard analysis
• Experience scaling production systems in ambiguous, fast-moving environments from prototype to operational reliability

Responsibilities:

• 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, including 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 for safety-critical Remote Assistance operation, including latency budgets, reliability targets, monitoring, replay/evidence, and incident learning loops
• Act as the technical interface to engineering leadership and safety stakeholders, shaping how Remote Assistance feeds into the evolving L4 safety case

Technologies:

• AI
• Hardware
• Support
• Robotics
• UX UI Design

More:

We are Wayve, founded in 2017 and the leading developer of Embodied AI technology. Our advanced AI software and foundation models help vehicles perceive, understand, and navigate complex environments, improving the usability and safety of automated driving systems. Our vision is to create autonomy that propels the world forward, with intelligent, mapless, hardware-agnostic AI products designed for automakers and the transition from assisted to automated driving. We work in a fast-paced environment where we embrace uncertainty and complex challenges, value diversity and inclusion, and support each other to deliver impact. This is a full-time role based in our London office, with a hybrid working policy that combines time in our offices and workshops with time working from home. We are committed to an inclusive interview experience and welcome applicants who are passionate about self-driving cars and want to make a positive impact.

last updated 35 week of 2026