Fleet Operations Trainer

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.

️ About our Fleet Operations Team

Our Fleet Operations Team ensures that our vehicles and staff continuously meet the highest standards in safety, performance, and regulatory compliance. Working collaboratively across various functions, the team plays a key role in developing and delivering training, maintaining operating standards, and supporting the professional growth of our people within a fast-paced and innovative environment.

Your day-to-day

• Monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of training programs, making recommendations for improvements.
• Maintain up-to-date training records and ensure compliance with company policies and legal requirements.
• Conduct regular assessments of operating standards across teams and individuals to uphold our quality objectives.
• Develop and maintain training materials, including manuals, presentations, and online resources.
• Work closely with subject matter experts to identify areas for improvement in training content, delivery, and operating standards.
• Monitor and analyse training metrics to identify trends and suggest opportunities for improvement.
• Develop and oversee implementation of quality assurance processes for both training programs and operating standards.
• Support staff professional development and course completion, in conjunction with Team Leads.
• Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to understand and anticipate training needs related to the growth of commercial operations.

What you’ll be working on

• Building, evaluating, and improving training programs for fleet operations.
• Upholding and enhancing the effectiveness and compliance of all operating standards across teams.
• Creating and updating a library of high-quality training materials.
• Implementing and tracking quality assurance processes for all training and operational exercises.
• Supporting the development and progression of Wayve’s staff through tailored training and development initiatives.
• Analysing data to ensure continuous improvement of both training content and delivery methods.

You should apply if

• You hold a full clean US driving licence and have at least 8 years' driving experience (mainly in the US).
• You have no blameworthy insurance claims within the past three years.
• You remain calm and controlled in pressured situations.
• You’re receptive to feedback, eager to learn from mistakes, and have a growth mindset.
• You enjoy working closely with people in a team environment.
• You can manage your wellbeing (including fatigue/stress) and have proven personal strategies for doing so.
• You have proven experience as a team coordinator or in a similar role.
• You demonstrate strong leadership and communication skills—both one-to-one, within your team, and when engaging other stakeholders.
• You can work under pressure and manage multiple priorities effectively.
• You have excellent problem-solving skills, attention to detail, time management, and organisational ability.
• You are proficient in Google Workspace or Microsoft Office suite.
• You have excellent written and verbal English communication skills.

Desirable

• Recognised Assessor qualification.
• Qualified Vehicle Safety Operator with a current qualification.
• Recognised Quality Assurance qualification.

Additional Requirements

• Available to work full-time onsite (Detroit office), 5 days a week.
• Must disclose any second job as part of the application process.
• Employment is contingent upon passing training, pre-employment checks, and ongoing drug/alcohol testing in line with company policy. Testing will occur during your onsite interview.

Not ticking every box? That’s totally okay! If you’re passionate about autonomy and keen to learn, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every requirement.

More About Wayve

Wayve is building the leading AI platform for autonomous driving. We are pioneering an end to end AI approach that enables vehicles to learn directly from real world experience, developing the ability to adapt, generalise and improve at scale. Instead of relying on hand coded rules or pre mapped environments, our AI Driver learns to drive by understanding the world around it. The result is technology that navigates complex urban environments with intelligence, precision and natural flow, unlocking meaningful advances in both safety and efficiency. We believe autonomy represents a once in a generation transformation in how people and goods move, comparable to the shift from horses to cars, and from human driven vehicles to intelligent machines.

Our ambition is to make autonomy universal. Wayve’s mapless and hardware agnostic AI platform integrates with global OEM partners, enabling continuous software evolution and unlocking advanced levels of automation from L2 plus through to L4 as our core AI model scales. In a race increasingly defined by intelligence and real world learning, Wayve is taking a distinct approach, building a generalisable driving intelligence that can power any vehicle, anywhere. By combining embodied AI with scalable deployment, we are creating technology that can be shaped to each OEM brand and driver experience, accelerating the transition to a safer, more intelligent future of mobility.

How we work - Locations & Flexible Working:

Our main hubs are in London, Sunnyvale, Yokohama, Herzliya, Vancouver, Leonberg, and Detroit. We operate a hybrid working model that combines in-person collaboration in our dedicated office spaces with focused time working remotely. This gives our teams the connection and energy of working together, alongside the flexibility to do their best work in a way that fits their lives.

The Interview Process

Our process is clear and respectful of your time:

• Initial call / recruiter screen (30 mins)
• Competency Interviews (Team Fit & Stakeholder Management; 2 hours total)
• Deep-dive technical interviews (Training, Quality Assurance, and Fleet Operations; 3 hours total)
• Final interview: mission & values alignment (1 hour)

We’ll always explain the format and work around your availability.

What’s in it for you (Location dependent):

Salaries benchmarked against the market annually

Meaningful equity, sharing in the ownership and long term success of Wayve

Learning and development budgets with support for training, conferences and growth

Comprehensive benefits including health insurance, dental, enhanced maternity and paternity leave, retirement or pension where applicable, access to therapists, wellbeing partnerships, team socials and more

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.

At Wayve we're committed to creating a diverse, fair and respectful culture that is inclusive of everyone based on their unique skills and perspectives, and regardless of sex, race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding) or any other basis as protected by applicable law.

For more information visit Careers at Wayve. To learn more about what drives us, visit Values at Wayve

DISCLAIMER: We will not ask about marriage or pregnancy, care responsibilities or disabilities in any of our job adverts or interviews. However, we do look to capture information about care responsibilities, and disabilities among other diversity information as part of an optional DEI Monitoring form to help us identify areas of improvement in our hiring process and ensure that the process is inclusive and non-discriminatory.