Applied Intuition
Engineering Manager - Autonomy Storage Infra
$204K–$343K
Sunnyvale · On-site · Manager · Full-time · Posted Oct 20, 2026
- Experience
- 6+ years of professional software engineering experience, with 2+ years in an engineering management or tech lead role.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent.
About the job
Leads the Autonomy Storage Infra team and sets the technical direction for large-scale data lifecycle systems supporting autonomy workloads across cloud, hybrid, and on-prem environments.
What you'll do
- Lead, mentor, and recruit data infrastructure engineers.
- Define the storage infrastructure roadmap and own system architecture and reliability across deployment environments and regions.
- Drive scalable data ingestion, indexing, storage, and retrieval, along with engineering and operational standards.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent.
- 6+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 2+ years in an engineering management or tech lead role.
- Hands-on experience with large-scale open-source data technologies and a track record leading high-scale distributed data systems.
- Experience managing production engineers across the full data lifecycle; understanding of containerization, cloud-native architectures, and modern software development workflows.
Nice to have
- Multi-cloud or multi-region data platforms, streaming or change data capture technologies, or data quality, profiling, governance, and observability.
- Experience in high-growth environments or exposure to automotive, defense, robotics, or other physical AI domains.
Pay
$204K – $343K USD base salary
Tools
Spark, Hudi, Iceberg, LanceDB, dbt, GCP, AWS, Azure
AI focus
Supports autonomy and physical AI workloads through large-scale data infrastructure; the role focuses on storage infrastructure rather than developing AI models.
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