Wayve · 2 days ago
Engineering Manager – Indexing and Search Systems
Sunnyvale, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Mid, Senior Level
2+ years expWayve is the leading developer of Embodied AI technology, focused on enhancing automated driving systems. The Engineering Manager will lead the new Indexing Team responsible for making Wayve’s vast video corpus discoverable and searchable, while also scaling the indexing stack to support advanced search capabilities.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Autonomous VehiclesElectric VehicleMachine Learning
Responsibilities
Lead and grow a team focused on the design, scaling, and reliability of Wayve’s corpus indexing systems
Define the technical architecture for:
Embedding-based retrieval (e.g., CLIP, internal latent spaces)
Metadata-based querying across large-scale video + sensor datasets
Multi-modal index structures for fast, expressive search
Establish engineering rituals (planning, standups, retros) and team delivery rhythm
Work closely with ML, data curation, and simulation teams to align indexing priorities with downstream workflows
Ensure the indexing system meets evolving performance, recall/precision, and observability needs at scale
Drive hiring, onboarding, and team structure planning to support 2026+ growth
Collaborate with platform and infra teams to ensure efficient data access, durability, and integration with pipeline backends
Qualification
Required
2+ years experience leading high-performing engineering teams
Proven track record designing and scaling distributed systems, particularly search or indexing infrastructure
Experience with vector similarity search, ANN algorithms, or semantic retrieval systems
Strong technical fluency with Python and/or systems-level languages (e.g., C++, Go); familiarity with data stack components like Spark, Ray, Databricks
Comfort working with ML workflows or embedding-based pipelines
Demonstrated ability to grow teams, drive team rituals, and lead through ambiguity
Preferred
Experience with modern vector search frameworks (e.g., Faiss, Weaviate, Pinecone, Vespa)
Familiarity with multimodal indexing (video + sensor + metadata)
Background in ML platform engineering or data discovery systems
Prior exposure to autonomous vehicles, simulation systems, or robotics data flows
Understanding of active learning, dataset mining, or data curation
Company
Wayve
Wayve develops AI software for automated driving that learns from data to navigate environments.
201-500 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$1.26BKey Investors
Innovate UKUberSoftBank
2025-07-28Grant
2024-08-29Series C
2024-05-06Series C· $1B
Leadership Team
Alex Kendall
Co-Founder & CEO
Max Warburton
Chief Financial Officer
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