Head of Software Operations
Core
Lead the organization responsible for the critical development loop of autonomous driving, from producing training data to validating software releases.
Role type
Senior operational leader (Head of Software Operations)
Builds
High-quality training and evaluation datasets for AI models, vendor operations, and operational pipelines
Domain
Autonomous driving, robotics, AI systems
Deliverable
production ML models | infrastructure
Required skills
Operational leadership, vendor management, budget/P&L ownership, root cause analysis, cross-functional collaboration, organizational scaling
Preferred skills
AV/robotics background, LLM/GenAI labeling pipeline experience
Technologies
Multimodal foundation models, LLMs
Responsibilities
Direct strategy and execution of the Software Operations organization, own data labeling vendors (quality, SLAs, budgets), manage embedded domain specialists, set operational KPIs and quality bars, evolve organization structure
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with strategic scope