Technical Configuration Manager

Before the detail, here's the challenge you'd help us solve.

We build the embodied intelligence that moves real vehicles safely, and the ecosystem a billion machines will run on in the future. Very few people in AI can say this. Every role here, whatever the team, plugs into that.

Here’s what this particular role covers.

🛠️ About our Technical Process Excellence Team

Wayve’s Technical Process Excellence team helps engineering teams apply practical, effective development processes. Working across engineering, product and quality, we bring consistency and traceability to how engineering work products, changes and releases are managed throughout the development lifecycle.

As Configuration Manager, you’ll own configuration and change management across Wayve’s full V-model development lifecycle. You’ll bring proven automotive rigour and adapt it to Wayve’s pace, shaping processes that give teams the control and evidence they need without weighing them down with unnecessary administration.

🧠 Your day-to-day

• Build and maintain the configuration item list across the full V-model, keeping requirements, architecture, software, verification evidence and releases clearly identified and controlled.

• Run change management in Jira, coordinating reviews, defining review checklists and state transitions, and ensuring only intended, approved changes are implemented.

• Establish and maintain consistent baselines across Jira, GitHub, Jama Connect, Enterprise Architect, Google Drive and Notion, ensuring teams can identify and work from the correct versions.

• Support requirements management, including requirements structures, attributes, traceability, baselining, change management and tooling.

• Partner with engineering teams and process owners to identify gaps, maintain configuration status records, conduct configuration audits and prepare evidence for internal, customer and external assessments.

🧩 What you’ll be working on:

• Defining, implementing and continuously improving configuration and change management across the engineering lifecycle, connecting work products and releases through end-to-end traceability.

• Acting as process owner for Automotive SPICE SUP.8 Configuration Management and SUP.10 Change Request Management, shaping how Wayve meets assessment expectations through practical, proportionate processes.

• Reviewing and finalising the Change Request process with engineering, product and quality, and creating and maintaining project-specific Change & Configuration Management Plans.

• Establishing folder structures, naming conventions and document templates that make engineering content consistent, accessible and easier to control.

• Improving workflows, tooling, automation, metrics and guidance across configuration and requirements management, reducing manual effort while strengthening control and assessment evidence.

🙌 You should apply if:

• You have automotive experience and have helped establish a full development lifecycle end-to-end, working across software, systems engineering and requirements management.

• You bring proven configuration and change management experience, including configuration item lists, baselines, change control, status accounting and configuration audits, alongside practical naming conventions and templates.

• You’re proactive, organise your work effectively and can drive implementation largely independently, taking ownership from defining an approach through to making it work in practice.

• You communicate clearly and confidently across engineering teams and are comfortable holding the line on process discipline with senior stakeholders while maintaining constructive working relationships.

• You’re pragmatic and can adapt established automotive practices to Wayve’s context, defining the right level of process rather than over-engineering the solution.

• You’re familiar with modern engineering toolchains such as Git/GitHub, Jira, Jama Connect or equivalent, and understand how to maintain control and traceability across tools.

• Ideally, you have good working knowledge of Automotive SPICE, particularly SUP.8, SUP.9, SUP.10 and requirements engineering processes.

• Experience managing requirements and traceability in Jama Connect or a comparable tool, and improving or automating engineering lifecycle, configuration or compliance workflows, would also be valuable.

• Knowledge of ISO 26262, ISO/SAE 21434 or other automotive engineering standards, or an intacs Automotive SPICE Process Expert or Assessor qualification, would be a plus.

🌱 Not ticking every box? That’s totally okay! If you’re passionate about autonomy and keen to learn, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every requirement.

More 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 generation transformation in how people and goods move, comparable to the shift from horses to cars, and from human driven vehicles to intelligent machines.

Our ambition is to make autonomy universal. Wayve’s mapless and hardware agnostic AI platform integrates with global OEM partners, enabling continuous software evolution and unlocking advanced levels of automation from L2 plus through to L4 as our core AI model scales. In a race increasingly defined by intelligence and real world learning, Wayve is taking a distinct approach, building a generalisable driving intelligence that can power any vehicle, anywhere. By combining embodied AI with scalable deployment, we are creating technology that can be shaped to each OEM brand and driver experience, accelerating the transition to a safer, more intelligent future of mobility.

How we work 💻- Locations & Flexible Working:

Our main hubs are in London, Sunnyvale, Yokohama, Herzliya, Vancouver and Leonberg. We operate a hybrid working model that combines in-person collaboration in our dedicated office spaces with focused time working remotely. This gives our teams the connection and energy of working together, alongside the flexibility to do their best work in a way that fits their lives.

🔍 The Interview Process:

Our process is clear and respectful of your time:

• Initial call / recruiter screen (30 minutes)

• Competency Interviews (Hiring manager call; 1 hour)

• Deep-dive technical interviews (Presentation; 75 minutes)

• Final interview: mission & values alignment (45 minutes).

We’ll always explain the format and work around your availability.

What’s in it for you (Location dependant):

💰 Salaries benchmarked against the market annually
✅ Hybrid working, core hours and the chance to work hands on in vehicle workshops and labs
📚 Learning and development budgets with support for training, conferences and growth
🩺 Comprehensive benefits including health insurance, dental, enhanced maternity and paternity leave, retirement or pension where applicable, access to therapists, wellbeing partnerships, team socials and more

A quick, honest note before you apply.

Wayve is not a mature, fully-structured place with the playbook already written. Much of how we work is still being written, and if you join, you’ll help write it. That suits people who want real ownership more than people who need a settled structure from day one.

If that sounds like the kind of problem you want to spend your time on, we’d really like to hear from you.

At Wayve we're committed to creating a diverse, fair and respectful culture that is inclusive of everyone based on their unique skills and perspectives, and regardless of sex, race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding) or any other basis as protected by applicable law.

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DISCLAIMER: We will not ask about marriage or pregnancy, care responsibilities or disabilities in any of our job adverts or interviews. However, we do look to capture information about care responsibilities, and disabilities among other diversity information as part of an optional DEI Monitoring form to help us identify areas of improvement in our hiring process and ensure that the process is inclusive and non-discriminatory.