Engineering Manager - Autonomy Data & AI

applied; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 190,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Applied Intuition, Inc. is seeking an Engineering Manager for the Autonomy Data team in Sunnyvale, CA. You will lead a world-class group of engineers focused on data quality, labeling workflows, and data mining to accelerate autonomy development.

You will drive adoption of foundation models and ML techniques, define the team's roadmap, and partner with research and data infrastructure to ensure high-quality, diverse data powering our models.

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.

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.

Skills

Engineering management

Data quality

Labeling pipelines

Annotation platforms

ML infrastructure

Foundation models

Data mining

Tools

Foundation models

Job description

Applied Intuition, Inc. is seeking an Engineering Manager for the Autonomy Data team in Sunnyvale, CA. You will lead a world-class group of engineers focused on data quality, labeling workflows, and data mining to accelerate autonomy development.

You will drive adoption of foundation models and ML techniques, define the team's roadmap, and partner with research and data infrastructure to ensure high-quality, diverse data powering our models.