Principal Validation Tech Lead / Manager, L4 Driverless Autonomy

🧠 Your day-to-day

• Lead validation strategy for advanced driver-assistance and autonomous-driving functions across multiple test modalities.

• Translate product and safety requirements into measurable coverage, acceptance criteria, and validation plans.

• Work hands-on with Python-based evaluation tools, metrics, simulation results, and large datasets.

• Analyse validation outcomes and communicate clear evidence to Product, Safety, Release, and Autonomy Engineering stakeholders.

• Coordinate dependencies across data, simulation, evaluation, and engineering teams so validation can run reliably at scale.

• Provide technical leadership and raise the quality bar for systems validation in ambiguous, fast-moving programmes.

🧩 What you’ll be working on

• Comprehensive verification strategies for ADAS and autonomy functions within the Wayve AI Driver.

• Test suites spanning simulated scenarios and physical vehicle testing.

• Behaviour metrics and evidence that connect system requirements to real driving performance.

• Scalable, automated validation workflows that support multiple products and customer deployments.

• Validation approaches for learned and adaptive behaviours as end-to-end AI systems evolve.

🙌 You should apply if

• You have significant experience validating complex automotive, autonomous-driving, robotics, aerospace, or similarly safety-relevant systems.

• You have led validation concepts from initial ambiguity through implementation, execution, and reporting.

• You can use Python to implement metrics and work within evaluation codebases; SQL experience is valuable.

• You understand simulated and physical testing and can make evidence-based decisions from imperfect data.

• You communicate crisply, document decisions well, and can align technical stakeholders across disciplines.

• Experience with ML, computer vision, motion planning, data science, SOTIF, safety validation, or agentic AI workflows is beneficial.

🌱 Not ticking every box? That’s totally okay! If you’re passionate about autonomy and keen to learn, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every requirement.