Applied Intuition is seeking an Engineering Manager - Data Intelligence to lead a team of engineers focused on improving data quality, building intelligent labeling workflows, and mining high-value scenarios from fleet data to accelerate autonomy development. This role involves technical leadership, team management, and integration of foundation models to scale data capabilities across Applied Intuition's platforms.
What You'll Do
- 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
What We're Looking For
- 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
Nice to Have
- Direct experience with foundation models, including LLMs and VLMs, for data automation tasks
- Background in autonomous driving or robotics perception
- Experience with active learning, auto-labeling, or human-in-the-loop ML systems
- Familiarity with 3D perception data (camera, lidar, radar)
Technical Stack
- LLMs, VLMs, multimodal models
- ML infrastructure
- Data-centric AI
- Data quality systems
- Labeling pipelines
- Annotation platforms
- Data mining
- 3D perception data (camera, lidar, radar)
Team & Environment
Engineering team within Data Intelligence group
Benefits & Compensation
- Comprehensive health insurance coverage
- Dental insurance coverage
- Vision insurance coverage
- Life and disability insurance coverage
- 401k retirement benefits with employer match
- Learning stipends
- Wellness stipends
- Paid time off (PTO)
- Relocation support (implied via office locations and hiring practices)
- Equity in the form of options and/or restricted stock units
Compensation: $204,000 - $343,000 USD annually, plus equity and comprehensive benefits including 401k match, learning and wellness stipends.
Work Mode
Employees are expected to work from the office 5 days a week, but occasional remote work is allowed. Flexibility includes starting the day with meetings from home before going to the office or leaving early for family commitments. Office locations include: Sunnyvale, California; Washington, D.C.; San Diego; Ft. Walton Beach, Florida; Ann Arbor, Michigan; London; Stuttgart; Munich; Stockholm; Bangalore; Seoul; Tokyo.
Applied Intuition is an equal opportunity employer and federal contractor or subcontractor. The company complies with 41 CFR 60-1.4(a), 41 CFR 60-300.5(a), and 41 CFR 60-741.5(a), which prohibit discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability. The company also abides by Executive Order 13496 regarding employee rights under federal labor laws and takes affirmative action to advance employment equity.
