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.

The Configuration Manager is responsible for establishing and operating effective configuration and change management across the engineering lifecycle. Working within the Technical Process Excellence team, the role ensures that engineering work products, baselines, releases and changes are controlled, traceable and compliant with Wayve's engineering processes and automotive development standards.

Beyond core configuration management, the role will support requirements management and wider engineering process activities, making it well suited to someone with broad experience of automotive development processes and Automotive SPICE.

Key Responsibilities

• Configuration Management: Define, implement and continuously improve configuration management processes covering configuration identification, baselining, change control, status accounting and configuration audits.
• Engineering Lifecycle: Establish and maintain configuration structures and baselines across requirements, architecture, software, verification evidence and releases, ensuring consistency and end-to-end traceability.
• Requirements Management: Support requirements management practices, including requirements structure, attributes, traceability, baselining, change management and requirements tooling.
• Process & Compliance: Support engineering teams in applying Automotive SPICE processes, identifying process gaps and preparing engineering evidence for internal, customer and external assessments.
• Tools & Improvement: Develop and improve workflows, tooling, automation, metrics and guidance across configuration and requirements management, working closely with engineering teams and process owners.

Experience

Essential

• Experience in configuration management within automotive, aerospace or another complex software/systems engineering environment.
• Practical knowledge of configuration identification, baselines, change control, status accounting and configuration audits.
• Experience working across software, systems engineering and requirements management lifecycles.
• Familiarity with modern engineering toolchains such as Git/GitHub, Jama Connect, Jira or equivalent.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to establish effective processes across multiple engineering teams.

Desirable

• Good working knowledge of Automotive SPICE, particularly SUP.8, SUP.9 and the requirements engineering processes.
• Experience with requirements management and traceability in Jama Connect or a comparable requirements management tool.
• Knowledge of ISO 26262, ISO 21434 or other automotive engineering standards.
• intacs™ Automotive SPICE Process Expert or Assessor qualification.
• Experience improving or automating engineering lifecycle, configuration or compliance workflows.

This is a full-time role based in our office in Leonberg or London. At Wayve we want the best of all worlds so we operate a hybrid working policy that combines time together in our offices and workshops to fuel innovation, culture, relationships and learning, and time spent working from home.

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.