[Remote] Manager, Engineering - Offline Perception

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Torc Robotics develops software for automated trucks and autonomous vehicle technology. The Manager, Engineering - Offline Perception will lead the Offline Perception team, overseeing strategy, execution, hiring, mentoring, and technical direction for auto-labeling pipelines, perception model development, evaluation, and large-scale training data delivery.

Responsibilities

• Lead, grow, and set technical direction for the Offline Perception team — hiring, mentoring, and managing the performance and career growth of engineers and ML engineers
• Own the roadmap for offline perception model development and evaluation, from curated datasets through training, benchmarking, and delivery to downstream consumers
• Stay technical enough to review and guide architecture decisions across auto-labeling integration, offline perception training and evaluation, and large-scale data pipeline design
• Represent the team to senior leadership and cross-functional stakeholders in perception, simulation, and systems — translating strategy into concrete execution plans
• Partner with product and peer engineering leaders (including auto-tagging, data delivery, and human annotation) to prioritize the roadmap and resolve cross-team dependencies
• Drive process and quality improvements across the offline perception lifecycle — dataset specs, evaluation methodology, and repeatable delivery of production-grade training data
• Manage team health and staffing, balancing headcount and skill mix between ML/perception engineering and data pipeline / AI infrastructure needs

Skills

• BS or MS in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, or a related field, plus 8+ years of software or ML engineering experience, including 2+ years managing engineers
• Hands-on experience with auto-labeling for self-driving development — not just model research, but pipelines that produce usable labels at scale
• Track record delivering large-scale perception datasets in production contexts — e.g. 2D OD, 3D OD, semantic segmentation, dense depth, and related modalities — with clear quality and delivery ownership
• Breadth across perception models and modalities — practical familiarity with different model families, what each is good for, and where they break down (accuracy, scale, latency, annotation cost, generalization)
• Experience with AI infrastructure and data pipelines — distributed compute and data platforms (e.g. Databricks, Ray, Spark), cloud infrastructure (e.g. AWS), and the tooling needed to train and evaluate at fleet scale
• Proven track record leading and scaling technical teams, including hiring, mentoring, and performance management
• Experience setting technical strategy and roadmap for ML or data engineering teams, and communicating tradeoffs to senior leadership
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to represent team strategy to leadership and peer engineering teams
• Experience leading ML or data engineering teams in autonomous vehicles or robotics
• Familiarity with VLMs, auto-labeling pipelines, or perception model evaluation methodology
• Experience managing managers or leading multiple teams simultaneously
• Familiarity with scenario description standards such as Pegasus layers

Benefits

• A competitive compensation package that includes a bonus component and stock options
• 100% paid medical, dental, and vision premiums for full-time employees
• 401K plan with a 6% employer match
• Flexibility in schedule and generous paid vacation (available immediately after start date)
• Company-wide holiday office closures
• AD+D and Life Insurance

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