Engineering Manager Data Platform and Infrastructure

About Applied Intuition

We are an in-office company and our expectation is that employees primarily work from their Applied Intuition office 5 days a week. However we also recognize the importance of flexibility and trust our employees to manage their schedules responsibly. This may include occasional remote work starting the day with morning meetings from home before heading to the office or leaving earlier when needed to accommodate family commitments.

About the role

We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead our Data Platform team within the Data Engineering this role you will manage a world class data engineering team responsible for the full data lifecycle from collection and ingestion to storage querying and retrieval at hundreds of PBs scale.

You will partner closely with all business units across Applied Intuition to define the technical roadmap for our data platform and ensure we can reliably support both external products and internal tooling across cloud hybrid and on-prem deployments. This is a highly cross-functional leadership role that requires deep technical credibility strong people management skills and a bias for ownership. At Applied Intuition engineering managers are expected to be hands-on leaders who actively engage in technical direction not just people management.

At Applied Intuition you will:

• 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 data infrastructure balancing short-term delivery with long-term scalability
• Partner with engineering product and business unit leaders to align data infrastructure investments with company priorities
• 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
• Champion the adoption of modern open-source data technologies and maintain a disciplined approach to build-vs-buy decisions
• 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

Were looking for someone who has:

• A Bachelors 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 Kafka Hudi/Iceberg Flyte 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

Nice to have:

• Proficiency in modern programming languages (Python C GoLang Scala etc.)
• Experience with Kubernetes and infrastructure-as-code tooling
• Background in enterprise software environments including on-prem and hybrid deployments
• Familiarity with data quality data profiling and data governance frameworks
• Experience hiring and building data infrastructure teams from the ground up
• Prior exposure to automotive defense robotics or other physical AI domains

Compensation at Applied Intuition for eligible roles includes base salary equity and benefits. Base salary is a single component of the total compensation package which may also include equity in the form of options and/or restricted stock units comprehensive health dental vision life and disability insurance coverage 401k retirement benefits with employer match learning and wellness stipends and paid time off. Note that benefits are subject to change and may vary based on jurisdiction of employment.

Applied Intuition pay ranges reflect the minimum and maximum intended target base salary for new hire salaries for the position. The actual base salary offered to a successful candidate will additionally be influenced by a variety of factors including experience credentials & certifications educational attainment skill level requirements interview performance and the level and scope of the position.

Please reference the job postings subtitle for where this position will be located. For pay transparency purposes the base salary range for this full-time position in the location listed is: $204000 - $343000 USD annually.

Dont meet every single requirement If youre excited about this role but your past experience doesnt align perfectly with every qualification in the job description we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

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