Tech Lead - Autonomy Performance, Robotaxi

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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 Robotaxi Teams The Robotaxi team is taking Wayve's AI Driver to its first public-scale deployment, with fare-paying riders on global ride-hail platforms. This team owns the end-to-end performance operating system for the product: the metrics, triage, and release gates that decide whether the autonomy is good enough to ship, and stays great release over release. For an end-to-end learned driving system, there's no existing playbook to follow: this team is defining what "performance" means from scratch. 🧠 Your day-to-day - Own and evolve the autonomy performance measurement framework for Robotaxi (driving + pick-up/drop-off): the metrics, dashboards, and narrative leadership uses to make ship/no-ship decisions - Build and run the end-to-end performance improvement loop: detect issues, triage and prioritise, drive root-cause investigations, and land…