Wayve
Technical Program Manager, Evaluation & Validation
Sunnyvale, California USA · Senior · Full-time
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About the role
- Your programs gate real on-road releases, so your impact is measured in release confidence, signal quality, and developer velocity.
- Working with engineers and scientists across Autonomy, Science, Release, Product, and Safety, you'll bring structure to a complex, cross-cutting, safety-critical space in a fast-moving environment.
- A successful TPM is a force multiplier - helping teams move faster, more effectively, and with purpose.
Responsibilities
- Drive program delivery: Own end-to-end delivery of cross-team programs spanning simulation, evaluation, and validation.
- manage dependencies, risks, and trade-offs, and escalate early with clear options.
- Coordinate release-gating validation: Partner with Autonomy, Science, Release, Product, and Safety on acceptance criteria and the validation that gates releases.
- Run delivery rhythms: Run planning, reviews, and retros, and communicate progress and risk to engineers, partners, and senior leaders.
- Bias for action: 8+ years leading complex, multi-team programs (or a strong record at this level). You lead high-complexity work across teams and get things done.
- you reason about how data, simulator fidelity, and metric design propagate into release confidence, even though you won't write production code.
- Sequence cross-cutting initiatives: Compose roadmaps across simulators, datasets, evaluation, and triage; manage dependencies, risks, and trade-offs, and escalate early with clear options.
- Technically strong: Credible with engineers and scientists across simulation, evaluation, ML, and validation; you reason about how data, simulator fidelity, and metric design propagate into release confidence, even though you won't write production code.
- Drive program delivery:
- Own end-to-end delivery of cross-team programs spanning simulation, evaluation, and validation.
Compensation
- This role is a full-time role based in Sunnyvale, CA (hybrid) and the reasonably estimated salary for this role ranges from $214,900 to $274,000, plus a competitive equity package.
Company info
- In order to set you up for success as a Technical Program Manager in Evaluation & Validation at Wayve, we're looking for the following skills and experience. (The first three are our must-haves.)
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