Technical Lead, Behavior & Triage Labeling

Nuro Nuro · Robotics · CA · Offboard Infrastructure

Nuro is seeking a Technical Lead for their Behavior & Triage Labeling team. This role focuses on building and operating highly scalable and reliable distributed systems for data annotation, crucial for Nuro's ML-first autonomous driving technology. The team ensures access to high-quality labeled data by managing a comprehensive labeling stack, processing millions of sensor data points weekly, and collaborating closely with autonomy engineers. The role involves applying ML research to optimize the data labeling lifecycle and productionizing core infrastructure for the autonomy system.

What you'd actually do

  1. Build highly available, fault-tolerant systems for data annotation
  2. Productionize core infrastructure for our state-of-the-art autonomy system
  3. Elevate label quality by implementing data-driven metrics and monitoring
  4. Apply cutting-edge ML research to automate and optimize the data labeling lifecycle

Skills

Required

  • B.Sc. or M.Sc. degree
  • 5+ years of relevant industry experience
  • Designing, building, and operating highly scalable and reliable distributed data systems
  • Leading cross-team projects
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Defining technical visions, creating roadmaps, and setting timelines and prioritization
  • Strong problem-solving skills
  • Programming skills in Python, C++ or Go

Nice to have

  • Experience building reliable large scale distributed systems
  • Experience with observability, monitoring and incident management
  • Experience applying ML research in real world applications
  • Experience leading teams, designing and executing team roadmaps

What the JD emphasized

  • highly scalable and reliable distributed data systems
  • Apply cutting-edge ML research

Other signals

  • ML-first approach to autonomous driving
  • High-quality labeled data is crucial for system performance
  • Comprehensive labeling stack with workflow execution, infrastructure, and annotation tools
  • Processing and annotation of millions of points of sensor data weekly
  • Reliable and scalable labeling infrastructure from request submission to data dumping
  • Close collaboration with autonomy engineers
  • Ensuring all issues are captured and quickly triaged as Nuro expands