# Technical Lead, Evaluation Infrastructure

**Company:** [Nuro](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/nuro)
**Location:** Mountain View, CA
**Role:** ML Engineering
**Salary:** $194k – $291k/yr
**Experience:** 4+ years
**Skills:** Python, C++, Distributed Systems, Ml Evaluation Pipelines, Metrics Frameworks, Data Engineering, Batch Processing, Streaming Data, Data Workflow Orchestration, CI/CD
**Posted:** 2026-05-28

> Lead the Evaluation Infrastructure team building metrics, evaluation pipelines, and validation platforms for autonomous vehicle safety and iteration. Requires 4+ years experience in distributed systems and ML evaluation, plus strong Python/C++ skills and AI-native engineering practices.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Build and own a unified metrics, evaluation, and validation platform — pipelines, introspection tooling, and analysis products that turn on-road and simulation logs into high-fidelity signals for autonomy iteration and driverless safety validation
- Drive the technical bar for metric quality across both heuristic and ML-based approaches
- Invest in the scale, reliability, and CI/CD of the evaluation stack to shorten time-to-signal for evaluation and time-to-confidence for validation, and to meet high SLAs for downstream stakeholders
- Mentor and grow the Evaluation Infrastructure team, and champion AI-native engineering practices that compound team velocity and code quality
- Partner with Product, Autonomy, Systems & Safety, and Simulation teams to define and execute the vision and strategy for evaluation

## Requirements
- B.Sc or M.Sc. degree plus 4 years of relevant work experience
- Strong fluency in distributed systems, large-scale data and ML evaluation pipelines, metrics frameworks (heuristic and/or ML-based), and analytics platforms
- Experience setting technical vision, roadmap, and prioritization for a team operating at the intersection of autonomy, safety, and data infrastructure
- Clear, concise communicator who partners effectively with PMs, engineers, and cross-functional stakeholders
- Ability and willingness to deep-dive into implementation
- Sets the technical bar for metric quality, pipeline rigor, and safety-critical engineering practice
- Strong proficiency in Python, C++, or similar languages
- Daily user of modern AI coding assistants and agentic tools (Claude Code, Cursor, and similar), with strong intuition for where they accelerate engineering work

## Nice-to-Haves
- Knowledge of data engineering tooling and best practices
- Knowledge of batch and streaming data processing, warehousing, and analytics solutions
- Experience with data workflow orchestration platforms
- Prior experience building evaluation, validation, or analytics platforms, ideally in autonomy, robotics, or safety-critical systems

## Compensation & Benefits
- Base pay range: $193,930 - $291,150/year
- Annual performance bonus and equity
- Competitive benefits package

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