Automotive Security Product Lead

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.

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The role

As Automotive Product Security Lead at Wayve, you will define, mature, and operate the product security framework for Wayve’s automotive software activities, spanning our R&D fleet, robotaxi programme, and software supplied to OEM customers. You will help ensure Wayve develops and delivers software that meets cybersecurity expectations from customers, regulators, and internal governance.

You will establish what good automotive product security looks like at Wayve, translating regulations, standards, customer requirements, and risk assessments into practical processes, requirements, and guidance for product and engineering teams.

This role sits within Security and partners closely with product, engineering, safety, and customer-facing teams. You will set standards, provide guidance and assurance, and review evidence and cybersecurity work products. Delivery teams remain responsible for implementing controls, producing evidence, maintaining cybersecurity cases, and owning residual risk.

This is a senior individual contributor role with broad influence across the business. You will help scale repeatable processes, templates, metrics, and assurance mechanisms that enable Wayve to move quickly while maintaining the rigour expected for automotive software.

Key responsibilities

Automotive Product Security Framework

• Define and maintain Wayve’s automotive product security framework, aligned to ISO 21434, ASPICE for Cybersecurity, and customer expectations.
• Establish practical processes, templates, guidance, and minimum control requirements across R&D fleet, robotaxi, and customer software programmes.

Programme Guidance & Assurance

• Act as the product security lead across automotive software activities, helping teams understand required security activities and expected evidence.
• Coordinate with security, product, engineering, safety, and customer-facing teams to identify dependencies, risks, and assurance needs.
• Review cybersecurity work products, traceability, residual risk assessments, and cybersecurity cases to ensure quality and completeness.

Product Security Risk Governance

• Establish mechanisms for cybersecurity risk visibility, escalation, and decision-making across programmes.
• Partner with risk owners to ensure risks are documented, remediation is tracked, and acceptance decisions are made by accountable stakeholders.
• Challenge and escalate where risk, evidence, or delivery gaps are not being addressed appropriately.

Regulatory, Customer & OEM Readiness

• Translate regulatory, standards, and customer requirements into practical internal expectations and assurance activities.
• Support external audits, customer assessments, and OEM reviews requiring cybersecurity evidence.
• Represent Wayve in product security discussions with customers, partners, and assessors.

Secure Development Enablement

• Advise and upskill teams on automotive cybersecurity practices including TARA, cybersecurity requirements, secure architecture, verification, validation, and security testing.
• Build reusable guidance and playbooks that integrate security into development processes with minimal overhead.

Metrics & Continuous Improvement

• Develop metrics covering product security maturity, assurance readiness, evidence quality, and risk treatment.
• Provide reporting and recommendations to senior stakeholders to drive continuous improvement.

About you

Essential

• Proven experience in a senior product security, automotive cybersecurity, embedded systems security, or security assurance role.
• Strong knowledge of ISO 21434, UNECE R155, and automotive cybersecurity practices.
• Experience defining, applying, or assessing cybersecurity lifecycle activities including TARA, cybersecurity requirements, verification and validation, and residual risk treatment.
• Strong technical judgement across software security, embedded systems, secure architecture, threat modelling, security testing, and risk assessment.
• Experience reviewing or contributing to cybersecurity cases, assurance cases, or comparable structured security arguments.
• Ability to challenge constructively and influence across engineering, product, safety, security, and customer-facing teams.
• Strong communication skills, translating standards and risk into practical guidance.
• Comfortable operating autonomously in a fast-moving environment.

Desirable

• Experience building or scaling an automotive cybersecurity capability.
• Experience supporting OEM assurance activities, audits, certifications, or type approval.
• Familiarity with ASPICE, ISO 26262, ISO 21448 (SOTIF), or safety-security interfaces.
• Experience with autonomous vehicles, ADAS, robotics, safety-critical software, vehicle platforms, OTA systems, or fleet operations.
• Experience with supplier cybersecurity assurance and third-party risk management.
• Relevant certifications or training such as ISO 21434, CISSP, CSSLP, GICSP, or automotive cybersecurity qualifications.

This is a full-time role based in our offices in London, Sunnyvale or Leonberg. 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. We operate core working hours so you can determine the schedule that works best for you and your team.

Wayve is committed to creating an inclusive interview experience. If you require any accommodations or adjustments to participate fully in our interview process, please let us know.

We understand that everyone has a unique set of skills and experiences and that not everyone will meet all of the requirements listed above. If you’re passionate about self-driving cars and think you have what it takes to make a positive impact on the world, we encourage you to apply.

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