Drimva

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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First seen Oct 21, 2026 · Last verified Nov 5, 2026 (UTC)