- Robot type
- Autonomous Vehicle · Robot AI and Software
- Location
- SunnyvaleCaliforniaUSA
- Job type
- Hardware
- Posted
- Aug 11, 2025
- Salary
- $204,000–$343,000 a year
Engineering Manager - Autonomy Data
Job description
Applied Intuition, Inc. is powering the future of physical AI. Founded in 2017 and now valued at $15 billion, the Silicon Valley company is creating the digital infrastructure needed to bring intelligence to every moving machine on the planet. Applied Intuition services the automotive, defense, trucking, construction, mining and agriculture industries in three core areas: tools and infrastructure, operating systems, and autonomy. Eighteen of the top 20 global automakers, as well as the United States military and its allies, trust the company’s solutions to deliver physical intelligence. Applied Intuition is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, with offices in Washington, D.C.;
Job responsibilities
- Grow and manage a team of world-class engineers with the goal of delivering high-quality, well-labeled data and identifying critical edge cases for autonomy
- Prioritize development across data quality systems, intelligent labeling workflows, and large-scale data mining infrastructure
- Lead the integration of foundation models (LLMs, VLMs, and multimodal models) to automate and enhance labeling, quality assurance, and data discovery
- Evolve our data engine architecture to scale high-fidelity labels, reduce annotation costs, and accelerate ML iteration cycles
- Set team goals and roadmap in alignment with training, evaluation, and deployment requirements
- Partner with research, autonomy, and data infrastructure teams to ensure high-quality, relevant, and diverse data is powering our models
- Drive hiring, mentoring, and growth for a high-performing, mission-driven team
Job requirements
- 3+ years of engineering management experience
- Passion for building and leading high-performing teams
- Experience building data quality systems, labeling pipelines, or annotation platforms at scale
- Familiarity with modern ML infrastructure and data-centric AI approaches
- Understanding of how foundation models can be applied to automate data workflows
- Solid track record of building and deploying products
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