Engineering Manager, SRE - AV Fleet

Role overview Lead a site reliability engineering team responsible for the safety, availability, and day-to-day readiness of an autonomous vehicle fleet operating in Japan. This is a hands-on management role combining team development and roadmap ownership with direct involvement in incidents, technical decisions, and vehicle systems. You’ll work across local operations and global engineering to improve reliable fleet operations as the organization and its practices continue to evolve.

Responsibilities - Hire, coach, and retain an inclusive team; guide performance, career growth, capacity, and sustainable escalation coverage. - Improve vehicle availability, incident detection and recovery, repeat-incident rates, software and model releases, and operational data workflows. - Lead response to serious engineering incidents and ensure blameless reviews result in owned, lasting improvements. - Set direction for observability, service objectives, production readiness, release safety, automation, remote diagnostics, and fleet tools; contribute to design and code reviews. - Partner with vehicle software, fleet operations, field engineering, safety, infrastructure, and programme teams to bring new vehicles and capabilities into stable operations. - Represent Japan’s priorities in global planning and communicate technical risks and decisions to local partners and internal leaders.

Requirements The available source excerpt does not include the role’s qualifications, so specific experience or skills cannot be stated reliably.

Benefits and work setup The role is focused on fleet operations in Japan and close collaboration with teams across engineering and operations. The organization is still developing its processes, offering substantial ownership for someone comfortable helping establish how the work gets done.