Automotive Product Security Lead

Job description

About us 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; we back each other to deliver impact. Make Wayve the experience that defines your career! The role As the Automotive Product Security Lead at Wayve, you will define, mature, and operate the product security framework for Wayve’s automotive software activities. 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 help ensure Wayve can develop, assure, and supply automotive software that meets appropriate cybersecurity expectations from internal governance, customers, regulators, and external assessors. 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. You will translate regulations, standards, customer expectations and risk assessments into clear, practical requirements and ways of working that product and engineering teams can apply effectively. This role sits within Security, but works in close partnership with product, engineering, safety, and customer-facing teams. This role sets standards, guides and advises, and assures implementation. Delivery teams apply the controls and processes, produce evidence and work products, maintain cybersecurity cases, and own residual risk. This is a senior individual contributor role with broad cross-functional influence. You wil…