Senior Program Manager, Validation Operations

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Job description

Who We Are 

Nuro believes self-driving vehicles are the most immediate and profound opportunity for AI to drive positive change in the physical world. Safer streets, more time for what matters, and easier access to the world around us, that’s why we’re building a universal autonomy platform: self-driving for all roads and all rides.

Founded in 2016, Nuro is a physical AI company developing Level 4 autonomous driving technology for a wide range of vehicles, use cases, and markets. Powered by the Nuro Driver™, our universal autonomy platform enables the global mobility ecosystem to deploy autonomy at scale, from robotaxis and logistics fleets to personal vehicles.

With years of real-world deployment experience and a flexible, partner-led business model, Nuro is working toward a future where millions of autonomous vehicles powered by our technology help make everyday life safer, easier, and more connected. Nuro has raised over $2B in capital from Uber, NVIDIA, Google, Softbank, Fidelity, T. Rowe Price, and other leading investors.

About the Team

Software Operations is the processing muscle behind Nuro Driver. We take the onroad miles our fleet collects and turn them into usable data, which becomes the foundation everything downstream depends on. Within Software Operations, Validation Operations holds the bar for safety and system testing, making sure our autonomous driving software is safe before it ever hits the road. It's careful, consequential work, and we take it seriously.

About the Role

Own the systems that make validation operations accurate, scalable, and ready for Nuro’s next stage of growth.

As a Senior Program Manager on the Software Operations team, you’ll partner with Autonomy, Systems, and Data Platform Engineering to deliver the high-quality data that powers critical validation and expansion efforts. You’ll serve as the bridge between Engineering, Operations, and our offshore partner, upholding the quality bar, building scalable workflows, and driving performance across the ecosystem.

This is a high-ownership role for someone who thrives in ambiguity and wants to make a measurable impact. You’ll investigate failures at their root, turn data into decisions, and lead the changes that keep quality, delivery, and operational confidence high.

About the Work

You'll lead the day-to-day operations that keep validation data flowing, accurate, and on schedule, bringing structure to ambiguity and turning quality gaps into lasting improvements.

• Support critical validation programs: Partner with Autonomy, Systems, and Data Platform Engineering to deliver the operational support and data that validation and expansion efforts depend on.
• Set the quality standard: Define metrics, sampling approaches, workflows, and operating mechanisms that enable consistent, scalable data quality.
• Diagnose and fix what’s broken: Audit live workflows, query databases, and trace accuracy or pipeline failures to their root cause, then drive measurable corrective action.
• Lead global operations: Own the offshore vendor relationship, including budget, capacity, performance, and quality outcomes.
• Drive improvement: Lead adoption of improved operational practices through clear documentation, stakeholder engagement, pilot programs, and change management.
• Build the team: Lead a small in-house team, strengthen oversight, and create processes that evolve with Nuro’s needs.
• Align teams around action: Translate complex operational and technical issues into clear recommendations for Engineering, Operations, and leadership.

You won’t just manage validation operations. You’ll make the whole function better, more scalable, and more trusted.

What you'll bring

• 5+ years of program management experience embedded with software validation and/or AI/ML operations
• Quality-obsessed approach to program management: energized by finding what is broken, not just by shipping on time.
• Deep familiarity with data pipelines and labeling ecosystems, including annotation workflows, quality sampling, taxonomy design, and inter-annotator agreement
• A track record of identifying and closing data quality gaps, with measurable impact on accuracy or model performance
• Experience managing large-scale offshore or globally distributed annotation teams
• Proficiency querying data with SQL and BigQuery, and using KPIs to drive prioritization, capacity management, and continuous improvement
• Ability to work both strategically and hands-on, from designing a quality framework to personally tracing a labeling fault through a database
• High agency and a history of building processes where none exist
• Clear written and verbal communication, with the ability to influence and make complex information accessible to technical and non-technical audiences
• Bachelor's degree in a technical or business discipline, or equivalent practical experience

Bonus Points

• Background in autonomous vehicles, software validation, robotics or data engineering

At Nuro, your base pay is one part of your total compensation package. For this position, the reasonably expected base pay range is between $132,000 and $198,000 for the level at which this job has been scoped. Your base pay will depend on several factors, including your experience, qualifications, education, location, and skills. In the event that you are considered for a different level, a higher or lower pay range would apply. This position is also eligible for an annual performance bonus, equity, and a competitive benefits package.

At Nuro, we celebrate differences and are committed to a diverse workplace that fosters inclusion and psychological safety for all employees. Nuro is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and expressly prohibits any form of workplace discrimination based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristics. #LI-CD1

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The unemployment rate was 5.1% in 2026M09, which is 49th lowest of 51 (1st is the lowest). Employers had job openings equal to 3.6% of employment, 37th highest of 51, a measure of how hard it is to hire. The median wage across all occupations is $58,240 a year ($28.00 an hour), 14% above the national median ($58,240 against $50,980).

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