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Product Feature Owner, ADAS

Product
Hybrid
Full-time
Senior or above
UK, Europe
Posted on March 19, 2026New

About the role

💼 What you will do

• Take end-to-end responsibility for specific ADAS functionalities such as Lane Keeping, Traffic Sign Assist, or Automatic Emergency Braking. • Ensure features meet customer (OEM) requirements, align with internal capabilities and roadmaps, and are delivered to spec. • Collaborate closely with OEMs, product teams, and engineering teams to define feature scope, set performance targets, and ensure compliance with industry standards.

📋 Job Requirements

• Have experience with ADAS feature development, including expertise in specifying and facilitating ADAS feature delivery from concept to production such as lane keeping, parking, cruise control, and active safety. • Have an automotive background with experience in automotive processes including requirements management, V-model, ASPICE, quality, and validation. • Have strong customer advocacy and communication skills with the ability to understand and represent OEM customer needs, negotiate requirements, and align expectations between customers and internal teams. • Have technical competence with a hands-on approach, including technical understanding of ADAS features, capability to engage in discussions about trade-offs and feasibility, and active involvement in testing, evaluation, and validation processes.

🌟 Nice-to-have

• Have experience shipping ADAS features into production with demonstrated success in delivering complete ADAS features into large-scale production automotive programs. • Have knowledge of automotive quality and safety standards such as ASPICE, SOTIF, and FuSa as well as the compliance regime around them including GSR-II and DCAS. • Have experience with machine learning, LLMs, and recent generative AI methods and architectures. • Have strong collaboration skills with the ability to effectively bridge technical and business perspectives. • Have an innovative and forward-thinking approach to exploring and developing new ADAS features.

🎯 Responsibilities

• Take full accountability for specific ADAS features, ensuring on-time delivery and alignment with agreed-upon specifications. • Monitor the feature's lifecycle from concept to production, addressing any deviations promptly. • Collaborate with feature group owners and engineering teams to create feature specifications. • Engage actively with teams throughout feature development, providing early feedback, participating in testing, and supporting validation processes. • Deeply understand OEM customer needs and requirements, representing their interests internally without compromising Wayve's objectives. • Harmonise OEM requests across different customers to maximise the development of reusable assets and ensure scalability. • Serve as the central liaison between OEMs, product teams, and engineering teams for your features. • Facilitate streamlined communication and reduce misunderstandings by participating in agile processes and rituals. • Proactively identify and address potential issues before they escalate. • Maintain and evolve the strategic feature roadmap as technology progresses towards higher autonomy levels.

About Wayve

📊 Wayve at a glance

🚀 Why Join - Our Take

Wayve is one of the most exciting AI companies in the UK right now. They are tackling one of the hardest problems in technology, teaching machines to drive, and they are doing it with an approach that the rest of the industry is now converging towards. Backed by SoftBank, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Uber, Mercedes-Benz, Nissan, and Stellantis, Wayve has raised $2.8 billion in total funding and reached a valuation of $8.6 billion. With over 1,000 employees across London, Silicon Valley, Vancouver, Leonberg, Herzliya, and Tokyo, Wayve is scaling fast while keeping its London HQ at the centre. What stands out on Glassdoor (4.4/5 from 112+ reviews) is how consistently employees praise the culture, the calibre of colleagues, and the quality of the technical work. People describe it as some of the most interesting work of their careers. Wayve also offers an on-site chef, private healthcare, competitive pay with equity, and a genuine learning environment where you work alongside world-class ML researchers and engineers. That said, some reviews flag that the pace can be intense and that working across global time zones can stretch working hours. If you are an engineer, researcher, or operator who wants to work on genuinely frontier technology with real-world impact, and you thrive in fast-paced, mission-driven environments, Wayve is a rare opportunity.

😃 What Wayve offers

• Work at the leading developer of Embodied AI technology. • Enjoy a hybrid working policy that combines time together in offices and workshops with time working from home. • Be part of a diverse, fair, and respectful culture that is inclusive of everyone. • Work on groundbreaking solutions that create autonomy propelling the world forward. • Join a fast-paced environment where big problems ignite the team.

💖 What makes Wayve unique

Founded in 2017, Wayve is the leading developer of Embodied AI technology. Their 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. Wayve's vision is to create autonomy that propels the world forward. Their intelligent, mapless, and hardware-agnostic AI products are designed for automakers, accelerating the transition from assisted to automated driving.

💬 What employees say

"There’s a huge variety of people with different roles across different levels that I engage with almost daily at Wayve. Everyone is treated equally, and everyone’s opinion is valued."

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