Location
London, with regular travel to sites in Europe, the US and Japan

Hours
Full Time, hybrid working model combining in-person collaboration and remote work

Salary
Negotiable, benchmarked annually against the market

About the Role
As Network & Infrastructure Manager at Wayve, you will lead a distributed team of engineers responsible for the network and site infrastructure across offices, garages, labs, and test facilities in six countries. You will own the roadmap, delivery priorities, and vendor relationships for a multi-year network upgrade and support new site expansions. Partnering closely with a staff-level network engineer, Security, Cloud, and Workplace teams, you will translate technical direction into reliable delivery while remaining hands-on approximately 20% of your time. Your responsibilities include reviewing designs, setting engineering standards, improving automation, managing on-call rotations, owning P1 escalations, and driving corrective actions after incidents. You will also shape new sites end to end, including network connectivity, audio-visual systems, meeting rooms, desk technology, and fit-out IT. This role offers a unique opportunity to combine people leadership with hands-on engineering and regular travel.

About Wayve
Wayve is pioneering an AI platform for autonomous driving that enables vehicles to learn directly from real-world experience. Our technology navigates complex urban environments with intelligence and precision, aiming to make autonomy universal. We operate globally with hubs in London, Sunnyvale, Yokohama, Herzliya, Vancouver, and Leonberg, fostering a flexible hybrid working environment. Joining Wayve means contributing to a fast-evolving company where you will help shape how we work and grow.

Interview Process
Our process is clear and respectful of your time and includes an initial recruiter screen, competency interview focusing on leadership and people management, deep-dive technical interviews on network expertise and security controls, and a final interview assessing mission alignment and judgement.

Benefits
Salaries benchmarked annually, meaningful equity, relocation support and visa sponsorship where applicable, hybrid working with core hours, learning and development budgets, comprehensive health insurance, dental, enhanced parental leave, retirement or pension schemes, wellbeing partnerships, and team socials.

Experience
- Proven leadership of network or infrastructure teams across multiple sites and time zones, including hiring and performance management
- Deep hands-on enterprise networking expertise in local and wide area networks, wireless, firewalls, and certificate-based 802.1X network access control
- Ownership of site infrastructure beyond networking, such as audio-visual systems, meeting rooms, fit-outs, or new-site builds
- Experience with infrastructure as code, network automation, setting standards, and reviewing team work
- Management of major network incidents and delivery of multi-site hardware programs with vendors and resellers
- Delivery of network security controls and evidence for security assessments such as TISAX, ISO 27001, SOC 2, or equivalent

About You
- Motivated to lead a people-focused role that includes hands-on engineering, on-call responsibilities, and regular travel
- Comfortable partnering with senior engineers and cross-functional teams
- Passionate about autonomy and eager to learn and grow in a fast-evolving environment
- Experience with Juniper SRX and Mist, Azure or AWS hybrid connectivity, RADIUS and certificate infrastructure, or automotive supplier-security assessments is a plus

Qualifications
No specific formal qualifications are required; however, relevant certifications and proven experience in enterprise networking and infrastructure management are highly valued. A positive attitude and willingness to learn are essential.