Engineering Manager - Autonomy Data
Applied Intuition· Data & Compute Platform
Sunnyvale$204k - $343kFull-timePosted 3mo ago
About the role
Engineering Manager leading a team focused on data quality, labeling workflows, and data mining to accelerate autonomy development, leveraging foundation models and AI techniques.
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
Qualifications
- 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
- A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent
Skills
Required:Data quality systemsLabeling pipelines / annotation platforms
Nice to have:Foundation models (LLMs, VLMs) for automation
Benefits
- Compensation at Applied Intuition includes base salary, equity, and benefits (health, dental, vision, life and disability, 401k with employer match, learning and wellness stipends, paid time off)
Last updated Oct 18, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
About Applied Intuition
Building vehicle intelligence | Applied Intuition
Applied Intuition is the vehicle intelligence company with the tools, Vehicle OS, and autonomy stacks for creating safe, AI-powered vehicle experiences.
AIAutonomy stacksSelf-Driving SystemSimulationTesting & ValidationVehicle IntelligenceVehicle OSai-infrastructure-and-development
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