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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Engineering Manager, Runtime Platform, Robot Software - **Company:** Wayve - **Location:** London, UK (Remote available) - **Salary:** £84,501.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Application Frameworks, Systems Engineering, C++ (Programming Language), Profiling, Linux on Embedded Systems, Middleware, Embedded Software, Real-Time Operating Systems, Datadog, Grafana, Perf (Linux), Low Latency - **Published:** August 17, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5844340734 ## About the Role * Engineering management experience (essential): a track record of leading, growing, engaging, and retaining a high-performing software/systems team - including hiring, coaching, feedback, and performance management. People management is your first priority. * Delivery through a team: experience owning a team's roadmap and shipping through others - planning, prioritization, resourcing, and accountability for quality and operational reliability. * Technical credibility: hands-on depth in what takes to architect and deliver embedded software shipped on a product to real customers. Demonstrate knowledge of high-performance, low-latency embedded software (C++) to earn the trust of senior systems engineers and own the team's technical decisions. You don't need to be the team's top individual contributor. * Performance & systems fundamentals: solid understanding of profiling, benchmarking, latency/throughput/memory-bandwidth analysis, and real-time scheduling, on embedded Linux (ideally also QNX). * IPC / middleware: a strong grasp of middleware for high-throughput real-time or robotics systems and the trade-offs across vendors and platforms. * Cross-functional leadership: the ability to set direction and deliver through influence across many stakeholder teams. * Experience in automotive, robotics, or another safety-relevant real-time domain. * Familiarity with profiling toolchains (pprof/gperftools, perf, Nsight, NVLumo) and observability stacks (OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Datadog). * Experience with NVIDIA (Orin/Thor) and/or Qualcomm compute platforms. * Experience with a micro-kernel and/or real-time OS (e.g. QNX) is a plus. ## Description As Engineering Manager for Runtime Platform, you'll lead a single team and be accountable for its delivery, engagement, resourcing, roadmap, and performance. People leadership is your first priority: you'll coach and grow the team, keep it engaged and high-performing, and own hiring as the team stands up. You'll pair that with strong technical judgment - setting clear technical direction on latency, profiling, real-time scheduling, and middleware, and owning the outcome of the team's technical decisions. * Lead and grow the team (first priority): keep the team engaged, developing, and performing with good morale; run 1:1s, set clear expectations, give regular high-quality feedback, manage performance, and support career growth against our career framework. * Hire and build the team: own hiring and onboarding to get the right people in the right roles, and shape the team's culture and ways of working as it forms. * Drive execution: ensure the team's work advances company goals; staff committed programs, keep the roadmap aligned to available resources, prioritize, and hold the team accountable for delivery, quality, and operational reliability. * Set technical direction: ensure the team has a clear, holistic technical direction and clear ownership of its technology-roadmap milestones - working closely with the team's tech lead(s) and stakeholders; own the outcome of the team's technical decisions. * Own the runtime foundations: guide the team's work across system design, application frameworks, the middleware/IPC layer, performance & optimization, and measurement & observability. Enable new vehicle platform enablement with incremental work and minimal performance degradation. Implement and maintain strong CI, HIL, and internal quality gates to provide a robust framework for fast iteration.. * Collaborate and unblock: cascade the roadmap, partner with internal Vehicle Software teams, model developers, hardware, and OEM programs. 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