Engineer Manager ML Data and Evaluation, Self-Driving Systems

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

Applied Intuition builds autonomy software deployed on real vehicles across multiple continents - passenger cars trucks mining vehicles and defense platforms. The business is profitable growing fast and deeply embedded with OEMs globally.

We are looking for an Engineering Manager to own the data and evaluation layer that powers our E2E autonomy models. This role covers what the industry typically staffs as separate orgs: data enrichment and autolabeling dataset curation and corpus management evaluation and metrics infrastructure and the closed-loop systems that connect on-road performance back to training. Here its one org under one leader serving ADAS L4 trucking mining and off-road from a common pipeline.

Model iteration speed is gated by how fast you close the loop. This team owns the pace. You will be hands-on in the technical decisions and close enough to the models to know when something is off.

At Applied Intuition you will:

• Own data enrichment: the ML pipelines that produce semantic labels object annotations behavior tags and derived features at petabyte scale across cameras lidar and radar. Ensure enrichment quality keeps pace with model requirements as they evolve.
• Build the curation and corpus management systems: distribution analysis targeted mining for long-tail scenarios embedding-based data selection scenario diversity and geographic balance enforcement.
• Own evaluation from offboard metrics to on-road driving quality. Define the metrics benchmarks and regression tests that determine whether a model ships. Close the sim-to-real gap. Build eval of eval tooling to measure and improve the evaluation system itself.
• Recruit develop and technically lead the team. Build a culture of rigor on a safety-critical system.

Were looking for someone who has:

• 5 years building ML or data systems for robotics or production software systems.
• 2 years managing or technically leading engineering teams.
• Experience with large-scale data pipelines: ingestion curation and processing of large-scale multi-modal sensor data.
• Experience reasoning about dataset composition distribution balance and corpus-level quality - making data decisions that measurably improved model performance.
• Strong software engineering in Python; comfort with C and distributed systems.

Nice to have:

• Shipped perception prediction or planning models to production vehicles.
• Experience with state-of-the-art simulation for ML eval (e.g. neural rendering and simulation).
• Labeling and auto-labeling pipelines: automated pre-labeling quality verification human-in-the-loop workflows.
• RL and reward engineering for autonomous driving or robotics.

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:$255700 - $346000 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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