Technical Lead, Behavior & Triage Labeling

Nuro
Mountain View, California (HQ) / California - HQ, Nuro HQ - Mountain View, CA2026-05-05

About the job

Nuro takes a machine-learning-first approach to autonomous driving technology. In an ML-first system, the overall system performance depends heavily on the quantity and diversity of its training and evaluation data. The team plays a crucial role in the advancement of autonomous driving systems by ensuring teams have access to high-quality labeled data. This is facilitated by a comprehensive labeling stack featuring a workflow execution framework, supporting infrastructure, and a suite of data annotation tools. Nuro’s autonomy stack utilizes an industry-leading sensor suite. Our tools must handle the efficient processing and annotation of millions of points of sensor data. Our labeling infrastructure supports millions of scenes weekly.

Responsibilities

Build highly available, fault-tolerant systems for data annotation

Productionize core infrastructure for our state-of-the-art autonomy system

Elevate label quality by implementing data-driven metrics and monitoring

Apply cutting-edge ML research to automate and optimize the data labeling lifecycle

Qualifications

Minimum

You have a B.Sc. or M.Sc. degree and 5+ years of relevant industry experience

You have experience in designing, building, and operating highly scalable and reliable distributed data systems.

You have experience leading cross-team projects and have excellent communication skills

You are experienced in defining technical visions, creating roadmaps, and setting timelines and prioritization for a team or project.

You have strong problem-solving and programming skills in Python, C++ or Go

Preferred

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