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Salary: USD 193,000 - 291,000 / annual
Nuro is a self-driving technology company building scalable autonomous driving technology. The company licenses its core Nuro Driver™ technology to support robotaxis, commercial fleets, and personally owned vehicles.
As Director of AI Data Operations, you will lead the organization responsible for the critical development loop that underpins Nuro's autonomy stack. This includes producing high-quality training and evaluation datasets, identifying autonomy regressions, and building confidence in every software release. Your work directly influences how quickly models learn, how effectively engineering teams resolve performance gaps, and how safely new capabilities reach vehicles.
Your team will sit at the center of Nuro's autonomy organization, working closely with machine learning, autonomy, simulation, onboard systems, data science, and product teams. You will help Nuro leverage emerging technologies including multimodal foundation models and LLMs to improve training data creation and system performance evaluation.
Key responsibilities include:
- Direct strategy and execution of the Software Operations organization, providing high-quality data for AI models and conducting triage and root cause analysis
- Own data labeling vendors as the extended software operations organization, managing quality, throughput SLAs, budgets, and pricing negotiations
- Manage embedded domain specialists conducting deep-dive work on autonomy stack modules, partnering with engineering and data science to build scenario and evaluation datasets
- Set operational KPIs, throughput metrics, and quality standards across all pipelines; serve as connective tissue between Software Operations, Engineering, and Product
- Run a multi-pillar organization efficiently, evolving structure to align with business needs
You are a proactive, technically fluent operational leader who can identify gaps across the autonomy development lifecycle and build the teams, systems, and partnerships needed to close them. You will define long-term vision for software operations while navigating ambiguity, executing disciplined processes, and staying aligned with Nuro's technical roadmap.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 10+ years of operational leadership experience, with 5+ years in AV, robotics, or complex ML operations including budget or P&L ownership
- Proven track record managing large-scale onshore and offshore vendor operations (labeling/annotation), both operationally and commercially
- Strong working knowledge of AI systems and cross-functional collaboration with engineering and product teams
- Strong analytical skills to identify root causes of KPI gaps and drive execution to resolve them
- Demonstrated ability to build and scale operational organizations in fast-paced, ambiguous environments
BONUS:
- Background in autonomous vehicles or physical AI
- Experience with LLM or GenAI labeling pipelines
