Wayve
Automotive Product Security Lead
Sunnyvale · Full-time
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 22 days ago
CybersecurityEmbedded SystemsRoboticsCommunication
About the role
- This spans our internal R&D fleet, robotaxi programme, and automotive software supplied to OEM customers, with assurance expectations applied proportionately to each context.
- You will be trusted to determine what good looks like for automotive product security at Wayve, applying industry best practice with pragmatism and adapting it to our technology, risk profile, product maturity, and stage of growth.
- This role sits within Security, but works in close partnership with product, engineering, safety, and customer-facing teams.
Responsibilities
- Define and maintain Wayve's automotive product security framework, aligned to ISO 21434, ASPICE for Cybersecurity, and customer assurance expectations.
- Partner with risk owners to ensure residual product cybersecurity risks are clearly documented, treatment options are understood, remediation is tracked, and acceptance decisions are made by the appropriate accountable owners.
Requirements
- Proven experience in a senior product security, automotive cybersecurity, embedded systems security, or security assurance role, with accountability for influencing security outcomes across complex technical programmes.
- Strong knowledge of automotive cybersecurity expectations, particularly ISO 21434 and UNECE R155.
- Experience reviewing or contributing to cybersecurity cases, assurance cases, technical evidence packs, or comparable structured security arguments.
- Experience establishing or scaling a product security or automotive cybersecurity capability in a growing or fast-moving organisation.
- Experience with OEM customer assurance, external audits, cybersecurity certification, type approval, or independent assessment activity.
- Familiarity with ASPICE, ISO 26262, ISO 21448 / SOTIF, or safety-security interface management.
- Experience with autonomous vehicles, ADAS, robotics, safety-critical software, automotive software platforms, vehicle networks, OTA update systems, or fleet operations.
- Experience managing product-security-relevant supplier assurance, supplier evidence, or third-party cybersecurity risk in an automotive context.
- Act as the product security lead across automotive software activities, helping teams understand what security activities are required, when they are required, and what good evidence looks like.
- Provide independent review of required work products, traceability and completeness, residual risk statements, and the overall credibility of the cybersecurity case.
Company info
- Founded in 2017, Wayve is the leading developer of Embodied AI technology. Our advanced AI software and foundation models enable vehicles to perceive, understand, and navigate any complex environment, enhancing the usability and safety of automated driving systems.
- Our vision is to create autonomy that propels the world forward. Our intelligent, mapless, and hardware-agnostic AI products are designed for automakers, accelerating the transition from assisted to automated driving.
- In our fast-paced environment big problems ignite us-we embrace uncertainty, leaning into complex challenges to unlock groundbreaking solutions. We aim high and stay humble in our pursuit of excellence, constantly learning and evolving as we pave the way for a smarter, safer future.
- At Wayve, your contributions matter. We value diversity, embrace new perspectives, and foster an inclusive work environment
- Automotive Product Security Framework & Strategy
- Establish practical processes, templates, guidance, and minimum control expectations for automotive cybersecurity activities across R&D fleet, robotaxi, and customer software programmes.
- Programme Guidance & Coordination
- Coordinate product security activity across security, product, engineering, safety, and customer-facing teams to ensure dependencies, risks, and assurance needs are understood early.
- Cybersecurity Case Assurance
- Define the minimum expectations, structure, and quality bar for Wayve's automotive cybersecurity cases.
- Assess whether the cybersecurity case provides a defensible argument that the relevant system or software is acceptably secure for its intended context.
Visa & Work Authorization
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