# Senior Program Manager, Validation Operations at Nuro > United States · Senior · Other · open. Source: https://alderhq.app/jobs/greenhouse%3Anuro%3A7838576 (read 2026-11-07). ## Facts (observed) - Company: [Nuro](https://alderhq.app/companies/nuro) - Location text: Mountain View, California (HQ); California - HQ - Where it can be done from (inferred): United States (evidence: "Location: Mountain View, California (HQ); California - HQ") - Posted: 2026-05-12 (179 days ago) - First seen by alder: 2026-11-02 · last verified: 2026-11-04 - Reposted: 0 times · edited: 0 times - Apply on the employer's site: https://nuro.ai/careersitem?gh_jid=7838576 ## Pay and sponsorship - Posted pay: not posted - Market band for similar posted roles (SF Bay Area, n 513): p25 $135k, median $165k, p75 $198k - H-1B filings at this company for similar roles, FY26: 3, median offered wage $229k ([US DOL OFLC LCA disclosure data](https://www.dol.gov/agencies/eta/foreign-labor/performance)) ## Description (the employer's text) ### 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 --- Data: alder (https://alderhq.app). Cite https://alderhq.app/jobs/greenhouse%3Anuro%3A7838576 and the date you read it. Observed facts come from the employer's own listing; location reach, level, family and skills are inferences.