# Technical Director, Safety Case at Wayve

- Company: Wayve
- What the company does: Backed by SoftBank VF and Air Street.
- Company website: https://wayve.ai/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: Sunnyvale
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $290K to $426K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-30
- Apply by: 2026-10-14
- Apply: https://wayve.firststage.co/jobs?gh_jid=8761943002
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/wayve-technical-director-safety-case/

## About the role

We are looking for a Technical Director, Safety Case to own the architecture, strategy and integrity of Wayve’s safety cases for our first products. This role sits independently from Engineering and Product and reports into Safety Management & Assurance, providing senior expert safety oversight while working closely with the teams responsible for designing, developing, validating and releasing the product.

## What they're looking for

- Deep experience developing or owning safety cases for complex safety-critical systems, ideally in autonomous vehicles, ADAS, robotics, aerospace, defense, or another software-intensive domain
- Strong systems engineering background spanning requirements, architecture, verification, validation, and safety assurance
- Proven ability to translate complex technical evidence into structured safety claims and arguments
- Strong understanding of autonomous driving and AI/ML safety, including model performance, data, uncertainty, and limitations of conventional verification approaches
- Experience partnering with AI/ML, engineering, systems, and product teams on safety-critical products
- Strong knowledge of relevant standards, including ISO 26262, ISO 21448, ISO/PAS 8800, and ISO 3450x

Tags: Commercial & Operations