Wayve
NPI Engineer
Sunnyvale, California USA · Senior · Full-time
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About the role
- This role is responsible for bridging product development, engineering, safety, fleet operations to ensure seamless launches that meet performance, quality, and user adoption goals.
Responsibilities
- Drive the relative programs towards an agile hardware/software development cycle to meet the program-level milestones
- Develop and refine a scalable NPI framework tailored to agile hardware/software development cycles.
- Partner closely with product managers and engineering leads to ensure development roadmaps align with release readiness criteria, quality standards, and operational scalability.
- Collaborate with Supply Chain to review and implement the supply chain footprint for scalability of the product.
- Implement feedback loops from internal stakeholders and early adopters to rapidly address issues before and after release.
- Lead retrospectives and process improvements post-launch to refine future NPI practices.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical discipline.
- 5+ years of experience in hardware/software product development, technical program management, or product operations, with at least 3 years in an NPI.
- Experience with project management tools (e.g., Jira, Confluence, Notion) and release engineering
Compensation
- This role is a full-time role based in Sunnyvale, CA (hybrid) and the reasonably estimated salary for this role ranges from $246,400 to $333,400, plus a competitive equity package.
Company info
- At Wayve we want the best of all worlds so we operate a hybrid working policy that combines time together in our offices and workshops to fuel innovation, culture, relationships and learning, and time spent working from home.
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