Engineering Manager - Autonomy Storage Infra

The role

You will lead a data engineering team responsible for the full data lifecycle at hundreds of PBs scale. You will define the technical roadmap for storage infrastructure and ensure support for external products and internal tooling.

What you will do

• Lead, grow, and mentor a team of data infrastructure engineers
• Define and drive the technical roadmap for storage infrastructure
• Own the architecture and reliability of systems across cloud, hybrid, and on-prem deployments
• Drive engineering decisions around scalable data ingestion, indexing, storage, and retrieval
• Establish and uphold engineering best practices, code quality standards, and operational excellence
• Recruit top engineering talent

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent
• 6+ years of professional software engineering experience
• 2+ years in an engineering management or tech lead role
• Hands-on experience with large-scale open-source data technologies (Spark, Hudi/Iceberg, LanceDB, dbt, etc.)
• A strong track record of leading teams that build and operate high-scale distributed data systems
• Experience managing engineers across the full data lifecycle in a production environment
• Deep understanding of containerization, cloud-native architectures, and modern software development workflows
• Strong cross-functional communication skills and the ability to influence technical direction at a senior level

Nice to have

• Multi-cloud (GCP, AWS, Azure) or multi-region data platforms, including data-residency requirements
• Streaming and change data capture technologies such as Kafka, Pub/Sub, Flink, or Debezium
• Familiarity with data quality, data profiling, and data governance frameworks
• Building and operating observability or monitoring for data systems at scale
• Working in high-growth environments where data infrastructure had to evolve rapidly
• Prior exposure to automotive, defense, robotics, or other physical AI domains

Benefits

• Base salary
• 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
• Paid time off

About the company

Applied Intuition, Inc. is a Silicon Valley company creating digital infrastructure for physical AI. It services the automotive, defense, trucking, construction, mining and agriculture industries.