Nuro
Director of AI Data Operations
$193K–$291K
Mountain View, California (HQ) +1 · Director · Full-time · Posted Sep 15, 2026
- Location
- Mountain View, California (HQ)
Nuro HQ - Mountain View, CA - Experience
- 10+ years of operational leadership; 5+ years in AV, robotics, or complex ML operations, including budget or P&L ownership.
About the job
Leads Nuro’s software operations organization, producing and validating data that trains and evaluates autonomous-driving AI and supports safe software releases.
What you'll do
- Direct software operations strategy, including data production, triage, and root-cause analysis.
- Manage data-labeling vendors, including quality, throughput SLAs, budgets, and pricing negotiations.
- Set operational KPIs and quality standards; lead domain specialists and coordinate with engineering, data science, and product teams.
What they ask for
- 10+ years of operational leadership experience, including 5+ years in AV, robotics, or complex ML operations with budget or P&L ownership.
- Proven experience managing large-scale onshore and offshore labeling/annotation vendor operations, operationally and commercially.
- Strong working knowledge of AI systems and cross-functional collaboration with engineering and product teams.
- Strong analytical, organizational-building, and execution skills in fast-paced, ambiguous environments.
Nice to have
- Background in autonomous vehicles or physical AI.
- Experience with LLM or GenAI labeling pipelines.
Pay
$193,000 and $291,000 (USD, base salary)
Tools
AI, LLMs, GenAI
AI focus
Leads creation and validation of training and evaluation data for AI models, including use of multimodal foundation models and LLMs to improve data creation and system evaluation.
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