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Engineering Manager - Autonomy Subsystem Evaluation

Sunnyvale, California, United States of AmericaRemoteFull-time$219k–$335k2026-11-03 → 2026-11-10
Hybrid

Core

Lead a team to build metrics that quantify how subsystem errors (planning, perception, prediction, localization) affect autonomous driving outcomes and steer software release decisions.

Role type

Senior Engineering Manager (Autonomy Evaluation)

Builds

Evaluation metrics and analysis frameworks for autonomous driving subsystems

Domain

Autonomous driving / Robotics / Machine Learning

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Autonomous systems evaluation, ML evaluation, statistics (hypothesis testing, confidence intervals), Python, SQL, C++ code review, team leadership, root cause analysis

Preferred skills

Vehicle dynamics, planning & controls, causal/counterfactual analysis, ML interpretability, data visualization

Technologies

VLMs, LLMs, Python, SQL, C++

Responsibilities

Set roadmap and quarterly plans for subsystem evaluation, build metrics weighting errors by driving impact, trace driving failures to subsystems, provide regression detection and version comparisons, validate metrics against human judgment, hire and develop engineers

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with management responsibilities