Engineering Manager, Map & Route

TL;DR

Engineering Manager, Map & Route: Leading the team responsible for translating mapping context, routing decisions, and operational constraints into reliable vehicle behavior with an accent on vehicle software, cloud services, and data pipelines. Focus on setting clear ownership, interfaces across teams, and raising the bar on reliability and technical excellence.

Location: Based in our office in London, United Kingdom. Hybrid working policy that combines time together in our offices and workshops and time spent working from home.

Company

hirify.global is the leading developer of Embodied AI technology, creating intelligent, mapless, and hardware-agnostic AI products designed for automakers.

What you will do

• Lead the Map & Route team, setting direction, execution cadence, and delivery standards.
• Own the end-to-end lifecycle for mapping and routing capabilities: requirements, design, implementation, testing, deployment, and iteration.
• Define and drive clear system boundaries, interfaces, and data contracts across teams to reduce duplication and improve integration.
• Partner with stakeholders across vehicle software, autonomy, product, safety, and operations to align priorities and make crisp trade-offs.
• Drive operational excellence for production services, including observability, SLIs/SLOs, incident response, and continuous improvement.

Requirements

• 2+ years leading and developing an engineering team, delivering outcomes through others across multiple quarters.
• Strong systems and architecture judgement, with experience designing and evolving production services, APIs, and data flows.
• Proven ownership of production systems with reliability expectations, including on-call, incident response, monitoring, and operational improvement.
• Excellent cross-functional communication and stakeholder management, with the ability to drive clarity and execution in ambiguity.

Nice to have

• Experience working across vehicle software and cloud services, or similarly complex hybrid software environments.
• Experience defining clear ownership boundaries and shared interfaces across multiple teams or product lines.
• Experience working with commercial suppliers or external vendors in a data, platform, or infrastructure context.

Culture & Benefits

• Committed to creating a diverse, fair, and respectful culture that is inclusive of everyone.
• Value diversity, embrace new perspectives, and foster an inclusive work environment.
• 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.