Safety Assurance Analyst

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.
Safety Assurance Analyst

🛡 About our Safety Team

Wayve is looking for Safety Assurance Analysts to support the ongoing monitoring and assurance of safety performance across our operations. You'll play an important role in ensuring that operational safety controls are functioning effectively, identifying emerging risks, and providing clear, evidence-based insights that support safe and reliable operations.

Working with operational safety data, you'll review Vehicle Safety Operator (VSO) driving data, incidents, interventions, model flags, Driver Monitoring System (DMS) events, operational process evidence, and other safety-relevant information to identify trends, control failures, behavioral concerns, and emerging operational risks. You will collaborate across cross-functional teams and international time zones to deliver impactful safety metrics and operational insights, providing concrete evidence of Wayve's commitment to safe operations.

This is a hands-on, analytical role requiring strong attention to detail, impartial judgement, and the ability to translate complex operational information into actionable safety insights.

Your day-to-day

You'll execute day-to-day operational safety assurance activities, using dashboards, reporting tools, and safety performance monitoring systems to assess operational performance and validate the effectiveness of safety controls.

You'll become a power user of Wayve's operational dashboards, analyzing driving data, incidents, interventions, driver monitoring outputs, model flags, and field observations to identify trends, anomalies, and leading indicators of risk.

You'll also support safety investigations by collecting and reviewing evidence, reconstructing event timelines, identifying contributing factors, and documenting findings. Through recurring safety performance reports and investigation summaries, you'll help ensure that emerging risks and potential control failures are clearly understood and communicated.

What you'll be working on:

• Monitoring operational safety performance: Review VSO driving data, incidents, interventions, model flags, DMS events, field observations, and other safety-relevant information to identify trends, anomalies, behavioral concerns, and emerging risks.
• Validating operational safety controls: Execute assurance activities to assess whether operational controls and safety processes are functioning effectively, identifying potential control failures and areas requiring further investigation.
• Analysing safety data and dashboards: Use Wayve's operational dashboards and reporting tools to interrogate safety metrics, identify patterns, and generate meaningful insights into operational safety performance.
• Identifying leading indicators of risk: Analyze operational datasets, driver monitoring outputs, model flags, incidents, and field observations to identify early warning signs of potential safety concerns.
• Supporting safety investigations: Collect and review evidence, reconstruct incident timelines, apply root-cause thinking, analyze contributing factors, and clearly document investigation findings.
• Producing recurring safety reports: Prepare weekly safety performance packs, monthly assurance reports, investigation summaries, and incident write-ups that communicate findings clearly and support informed decision-making.
• Maintaining data and evidence quality: Validate the accuracy, completeness, and consistency of operational data while recognizing limitations in the underlying evidence.
• Communicating actionable safety insights: Translate complex operational data and investigation findings into concise, objective, and actionable reports.
• Maintaining impartial safety assurance: Apply consistent, evidence-based judgement when reviewing safety-relevant events, operational behaviours, incidents, and performance trends.

You should apply if:

• You have strong working knowledge of operational dashboards, reporting tools, and safety performance monitoring systems.
• You're comfortable becoming a power user of operational dashboards, extracting insights, identifying trends, and producing clear, recurring reports.
• You bring strong data analytics literacy, including the ability to work with operational datasets, interrogate metrics, validate data quality, and recognize limitations in available evidence.
• You have strong reporting capabilities and can prepare weekly safety performance packs, monthly assurance reports, investigation summaries, and incident write-ups.
• You can identify leading indicators of risk from operational dashboards, datasets, incidents, driver monitoring outputs, model flags, and field observations.
• You have investigation skills, including evidence collection, timeline reconstruction, root-cause thinking, contributing-factor analysis, and clear documentation of findings.
• You understand operational safety principles and can interpret data in the context of real-world fleet operations.
• You demonstrate exceptional attention to detail, consistency, and accuracy when reviewing and documenting safety-relevant information.
• You're a strong written communicator who can translate complex operational data into clear, concise, and actionable reports.
• You exercise sound, impartial judgement when assessing safety-relevant events, behaviors, incidents, and operational performance trends.

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.

How we work - Locations & Flexible Working:

Our main hubs are in London, Sunnyvale, Yokohama, Herzliya, Vancouver and Leonberg. 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 (Hiring Manager and Cross-functional Interviews) (90 mins)
• Deep-dive technical interviews (Presentation) (60 mins)
• Final interview: (30 mins)

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

What's in it for you:

Salaries benchmarked against the market annually
Meaningful equity, sharing in the ownership and long term success of Wayve
Relocation support and visa sponsorship where applicable
• Hybrid working, core hours and the chance to work hands on in vehicle workshops and labs
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.