Senior Global Fleet Reliability Lead

Applied Intuition; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 200,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Applied Intuition, Inc. is seeking a Senior Manager, Global Fleet Reliability Operations to lead end-to-end vehicle issue management across global fleets.

You will drive triage, root cause analysis, and engineering change programs, coordinating with engineering, build, and integration teams to deploy fixes fleet-wide. You will manage development and production fleets, ensuring timely validation gates, quality escalation, and strong uptime metrics.

Qualifications

• BS/MS in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or similar
• 10+ years experience working with automotive hardware and software
• 5+ years leading technical teams across multiple regions, time zones, or vehicle programs — including hiring and developing engineers or technicians, and managing a mix of full-time and contract/vendor-supplied technical workforce.

Responsibilities

• Lead global fleet reliability across multiple programs — own the end-to-end lifecycle of vehicle issues from report, through root cause, to a landed fleet-wide fix.
• Own triage across both development and production fleets — define the intake, tooling, and staffing model for each (on-site engineer support and fast repro cycles for development vehicles; telemetry, operator logs, and SLA-driven queues for customer fleets).
• Own root cause analysis and engineering change management — partner with engineering on permanent fixes for recurring and systemic failure modes, and own the change program that lands approved fixes across the fleet.
• Own the validation gates that return a vehicle to service, so no vehicle rejoins a fleet before it’s confirmed ready, and set the bar for escalation quality.
• Build and lead the team — hire, onboard, and develop a mix of full-time engineers and a contract technical workforce across regions and time zones.
• Own fleet uptime and reporting — be accountable for uptime against program targets, and build the tooling and reporting that make it visible.

Education

BS/MS in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or similar

10+ years experience in automotive hardware and software

5+ years leading technical teams across regions/time zones

Tools

Linux

CAN/CAN FD

Job description

Applied Intuition, Inc. is seeking a Senior Manager, Global Fleet Reliability Operations to lead end-to-end vehicle issue management across global fleets.

You will drive triage, root cause analysis, and engineering change programs, coordinating with engineering, build, and integration teams to deploy fixes fleet-wide. You will manage development and production fleets, ensuring timely validation gates, quality escalation, and strong uptime metrics.