Engineering Manager, SRE – AV Fleet, Japan

Yokohama, Japan💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-05 → 2026-09-30

Core

Lead the Japan Fleet Reliability SRE team to ensure the safety, reliability, and availability of Wayve's autonomous vehicle fleet in Japan.

Role type

Hands-on Engineering Manager, SRE

Builds

Autonomous vehicle fleet operations, reliability tooling, and scalable operating models for new vehicle platforms.

Domain

Autonomous driving, Embodied AI, Vehicle Software

Required skills

Engineering management, SRE leadership, incident command, roadmap planning, team scaling, observability design, automation strategy, stakeholder management, risk management

Preferred skills

Experience with vehicle compute/sensors, global team coordination, OEM partnerships

Technologies

Fleet tooling, observability platforms, release management systems, remote diagnostics

Responsibilities

Build and coach a high-performing SRE team; maximize safe on-road time through fleet health improvements; turn failure modes into engineering improvements; create scalable operating models for new vehicle platforms; represent Japan's operational needs in global engineering priorities; build automation to reduce manual toil.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC manager

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About Wayve

🚀 Wayve is building the leading AI platform for autonomous driving. We are pioneering an end to end AI approach that enables vehicles to learn directly from real world experience, developing the ability to adapt, generalise and improve at scale. Instead of relying on hand coded rules or pre mapped environments, our AI Driver learns to drive by understanding the world around it. The result is technology that navigates complex urban environments with intelligence, precision and natural flow, unlocking meaningful advances in both safety and efficiency. We believe autonomy represents a once in a