- Robot type
- Autonomous Vehicle · Robot AI and Software
- Location
- SunnyvaleCaliforniaUSA
- Job type
- Software
- Posted
- Oct 20, 2026
- Salary
- $204,000–$343,000 a year
Engineering Manager - Autonomy Storage Infra
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
- Lead, grow, and mentor a team of data infrastructure engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, ownership, and collaboration
- Define and drive the technical roadmap for storage infrastructure, balancing short-term delivery with long-term scalability
- Own the architecture and reliability of systems that handle the full data lifecycle across all deployment environments (cloud, hybrid, on-prem) and regions
- Drive engineering decisions around scalable data ingestion, indexing, storage, and retrieval for high-volume autonomous vehicle and physical AI workloads
- Establish and uphold engineering best practices, code quality standards, and operational excellence across the team
- Recruit top engineering talent and build an inclusive, high-performing team
Job requirements
- A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent
- 6+ years of professional software engineering experience, with 2+ years in an engineering management or tech lead role
- Hands-on experience with large-scale open-source data technologies (Spark, Hudi/Iceberg, LanceDB, dbt, etc.)
- A strong track record of leading teams that build and operate high-scale distributed data systems
- Experience managing engineers across the full data lifecycle in a production environment
- Deep understanding of containerization, cloud-native architectures, and modern software development workflows
- Strong cross-functional communication skills and the ability to influence technical direction at a senior level
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