Ever imagined saying, “I helped launch the future of transportation”?
We’re rewriting the rules of urban mobility. At Vay, customers tap a button and a car arrives - with no one inside - powered by our world-first Remote Driving technology on real public streets.
We’re live in Las Vegas and scaling fast, powered by a strategic investment of up to $410 million from Grab. Our mission is simple: replace private car ownership with a faster, cleaner, door-to-door mobility model. If you want to build something real, visible, and genuinely transformative, you’ll feel right at home here.
What’s happening at Vay:- First to roll out vehicles in both Europe and the USA on public roads without a human being inside & one of only two companies in the States operating a commercial driverless service.
- We've partnered with Kodiak to bring remote-driving technology to autonomous trucks in the Bay Area, showcasing our ability to integrate our system into heavy-duty commercial vehicles and expand the applications of our tech across the US.
- We’ve completed 10’s of thousands of trips so far and are busy multiplying our Las Vegas fleet just to meet demand!
- ...And soon we’ll be expanding across the US & Europe 🚀
As a Director or Senior Engineering Manager for our Core Remote Driving Software at Vay, you will lead and grow two critical engineering teams, Platform and Media, responsible for the real time software foundations of our remote driving product. These teams build and operate the core platform and low latency audio and video streaming systems that run on high performance computers across our vehicles and remote driving stations, enabling safe remote operation at scale.
Beyond team leadership, you will own the technical direction of the compute platform itself, including the evaluation and selection of vehicle and station hardware for our driverless fleet. Because these systems operate in real time and in safety critical environments, performance monitoring, reliability, and the tooling that supports them are central to the role and have a direct impact on how our vehicles operate on public roads without a safety driver.At Vay, we value engineering leaders who stay close to the technology while scaling teams and systems. In this role, you will guide architectural decisions, remove obstacles for your teams, and build a high performing engineering culture grounded in focus, ownership, and excellence. Working closely with the founder and senior leadership, you will play a key role in shaping our long term technical direction, how we operate as an engineering organisation, and how we safely scale remote driving on public roads.
What you’ll be drivingYou will lead, scale, and technically guide the Platform and Media engineering teams, owning the vision and execution of core remote driving software that powers Vay’s driverless fleet.
In order to do that, you will:
- Lead and scale the Platform and Media engineering teams, owning the delivery of core real time platform and media systems
- Define and drive modern software engineering practices, ensuring high quality, reliability, and predictable delivery
- Partner with technical leads to shape roadmaps, priorities, and long term technical direction
- Review designs and guide architectural decisions for performance and safety critical systems
- Build, coach, and develop engineers through clear expectations, feedback, and career growth
- Own hiring for your teams in close collaboration with Talent
- Stay hands on where it adds the most value, contributing up to 25% of the time
- Collaborate closely with product, program, and cross functional teams to drive alignment and execution
You are a senior engineering leader who enjoys owning complex, real time systems end to end, from technical direction and architecture through to production operation
- You have led multiple high performing engineering teams of 5 to 10 engineers, with a proven track record of scaling and developing teams
- You are passionate about improving engineering productivity and enabling other teams across the organisation
- You bring strong proficiency in C++ and Linux, with experience working close to the system in performance critical environments
- You have worked on embedded or real time systems where reliability, latency, and resource constraints are critical to success
- You are a clear and effective communicator, comfortable aligning stakeholders and driving decisions across teams and levels
- You operate with a high sense of urgency and ownership in fast moving environments
- Experience working with Robot Operating System (ROS)
- Experience with hardware or compute platform evaluation and selection
💪 A global team of smart, motivated people from 30+ countries who love tackling hard problems and turning bold ideas into reality
🌍 Huge scope for impact in a fast paced environment
💰 ESOP stock options: A stake in Vay’s future - not just a salary
🌴 Unlimited Paid Vacation Days
🎫 Subsidised Deutschland ticket (Berlin)
🏋️♂️ Subsidised Urban Sports Club or FitX Membership
🚗 All Vay team members receive 30% off their Vay rides
🛍️ Exclusive external discounts
💼 €350 Home office budget
✈️ Relocation financial assistance when relocating to Berlin
📚 Fully funded German Lessons
🎊 Regular team events throughout the year
For more information on Vay’s physical demands, working environments and safety requirements, you can review this link. We’ll also cover anything specific to this role during the first interview.
We’d love to stay connected for future opportunities, so feel free to include your LinkedIn profile when you apply.
We welcome applications from all backgrounds and experiences. If you’re excited about shaping something truly groundbreaking, we’d be happy to hear from you 🚗💨
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What We Do
Vay's first commercial service is now live in Las Vegas, Nevada: By-minute rental cars. Delivered driverless.
Vay is the first company to drive a car without a person inside on public streets in Europe and the US, enabled by teledriving (e.g. remote driving) technology. Vay aims to launch a sustainable, affordable, door-to-door mobility service with remotely driven ("teledriven") cars: Teledrivers bring an electric car to the customer and pick it up after the journey is completed, eliminating the time-consuming search for a parking spot for the customer. While in the car, the customers drive themselves.
Vay sees teledriving as an alternative approach to autonomous driving and aims to gradually introduce autonomous functions in its system based on high-quality teledrive data.
Vay was founded in Berlin in 2018 by Thomas von der Ohe, Fabrizio Scelsi and Bogdan Djukic. Vay's team of 150+ people combines the best of two worlds - software & product experience from Silicon Valley and automotive hardware & safety engineering from Europe. The company has offices in Berlin and Hamburg, Germany, as well as in Las Vegas, USA. Vay raised a USD 95m Series B funding round.
Get the Vay app here: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vay-rent-cars-by-the-minute/id6466818242
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