Senior Engineering Manager, Data Platform and AI

Lucid Motors; Phoenix (AZ); Sur place; USD 211 000 - 310 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Paid time off

Equity program

401(k) retirement plan

Résumé du poste

Lucid Motors is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager, Data Platform and AI to lead strategy, architecture, delivery, and operation of an enterprise data platform ingesting vehicle telemetry and enterprise data. You will oversee teams delivering data products and AI-ready foundations across engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, finance, and more.

You will champion data quality, governance, and scalable pipelines on AWS with Redshift and related tools, shaping data contracts and reusable data

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or a related field.
• 12+ years of experience in data engineering, data platform engineering, distributed systems, or large-scale data technologies.
• 6+ years of experience leading engineering teams and delivering enterprise-scale, production data solutions.
• Deep hands-on expertise in Amazon Redshift, including dimensional modeling, distribution and sort strategies, workload management, query and storage optimization, security, scaling, and cost management.
• Proven experience integrating high-volume vehicle, IoT, connected-product, or telemetry data with enterprise transactional and master data.
• Strong knowledge of data quality management, including profiling, validation, reconciliation, lineage, observability, quality metrics, and remediation processes.
• Experience creating curated, governed, reusable data products and AI-ready datasets for analytics, machine learning, and Generative AI.
• Deep understanding of batch and streaming architectures, schema evolution, event processing, time-series data, data contracts, and distributed data systems.
• Strong AWS experience and hands-on knowledge of technologies such as S3, Glue, Lambda, Kinesis or Kafka, Airflow, Spark, IAM, Terraform, CI/CD, and observability platforms.
• Strong programming skills in Python and SQL, with experience in Java and/or Scala preferred.
• Strong software engineering foundation and experience operating secure, reliable, petabyte-scale data platforms in production.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to translate business and AI use cases into scalable technical solutions.

Responsabilités

• Define and execute the strategy and roadmap for enterprise data, telemetry, and AI platforms.
• Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing team of data and platform engineers.
• Drive engineering excellence through automation, operational rigor, and modern development practices.
• Partner with business and technology leaders to deliver high-impact data products and capabilities.
• Own the architecture, reliability, performance, security, and cost efficiency of the enterprise data platform on AWS.
• Lead the design and operation of Amazon Redshift, including data modeling, distribution and sort strategies, workload management, scaling, performance tuning, access controls, and cost optimization.
• Develop and operate scalable data lakes, warehouses, streaming platforms, orchestration frameworks, and self-service data capabilities.
• Establish reusable platform patterns, data contracts, metadata standards, and automation that improve delivery speed and operational consistency.
• Build and operate high-volume, resilient batch and real-time pipelines that ingest vehicle telemetry and data from enterprise applications.
• Integrate and stitch telemetry with manufacturing, supply chain, sales, service, finance, customer, and master data to create consistent cross-domain views.
• Address schema evolution, late-arriving events, time-series processing, event ordering, data contracts, and vehicle-to-enterprise identity resolution.
• Curate governed, reusable data products and standardized business entities that support analytics, engineering diagnostics, machine learning, and Generative AI.
• Provide secure, reliable self-service access to trusted telemetry and enterprise data for engineering, data science, and business teams.
• Define and enforce data quality standards, ownership, controls, and measurable SLAs across critical data products.
• Implement data profiling, validation, reconciliation, lineage, observability, anomaly detection, and root-cause remediation capabilities.
• Establish monitoring, incident management, disaster recovery, and service-level objectives for business-critical data services.
• Lead platform modernization, performance optimization, security, compliance, and cloud cost optimization initiatives.

Connaissances

Data engineering

Leadership

AWS

Python

SQL

Data quality

Airflow

Terraform

Streaming data

Formation

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or a related field

Outils

Amazon Redshift

S3

Glue

Lambda

Kinesis

Kafka

Airflow

Spark

Terraform

CI/CD

Description du poste

About Lucid

At Lucid, we are creating exceptional mobility experiences through innovation to drive the world forward. Built on Lucid’s proprietary technology and software-defined vehicle architecture, our award-winning vehicles bring our “Compromise Nothing™” approach to the global automotive market. That means refusing to choose between performance and sustainability, design and engineering, ambition and integrity. In Lucid Air and Lucid Gravity, we have designed and built vehicles that have redefined their segments, combining exceptional range, performance, design, and expansive space in a single experience.

We achieve this through deep vertical integration, with design, engineering, and production happening in-house across our global offices and manufacturing facilities. Our teams come from industries around the world, united by a shared commitment to excellence. By refusing to settle, you can help redefine what’s possible and shape the future of mobility.

Position Overview

We are seeking an experienced Senior Engineering Manager, Data Platform and AI to lead the strategy, architecture, delivery, and operation of an enterprise data platform that ingests high-volume vehicle telemetry and enterprise systems data, integrates and curates it into trusted data products, and provides scalable, governed, AI-ready data foundations. This role will oversee teams building business-critical capabilities for engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, finance, sales, service, and corporate functions.

The ideal candidate combines strong engineering leadership with deep technical expertise in data engineering, data quality, AWS, and Amazon Redshift. You will build and lead a high-performing team responsible for reliable batch and streaming ingestion, cross-domain data integration, identity resolution, data curation, governance, and platform operations at scale.

What You’ll Do

Lead Data & AI Platform Engineering

• Define and execute the strategy and roadmap for enterprise data, telemetry, and AI platforms.
• Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing team of data and platform engineers.
• Drive engineering excellence through automation, operational rigor, and modern development practices.
• Partner with business and technology leaders to deliver high-impact data products and capabilities.

Build and Scale Data Platforms

• Own the architecture, reliability, performance, security, and cost efficiency of the enterprise data platform on AWS.
• Lead the design and operation of Amazon Redshift, including data modeling, distribution and sort strategies, workload management, scaling, performance tuning, access controls, and cost optimization.
• Develop and operate scalable data lakes, warehouses, streaming platforms, orchestration frameworks, and self-service data capabilities.
• Establish reusable platform patterns, data contracts, metadata standards, and automation that improve delivery speed and operational consistency.

Lead Enterprise & Telemetry Data Engineering

• Build and operate high-volume, resilient batch and real-time pipelines that ingest vehicle telemetry and data from enterprise applications.
• Integrate and stitch telemetry with manufacturing, supply chain, sales, service, finance, customer, and master data to create consistent cross-domain views.
• Address schema evolution, late-arriving events, time-series processing, event ordering, data contracts, and vehicle-to-enterprise identity resolution.
• Curate governed, reusable data products and standardized business entities that support analytics, engineering diagnostics, machine learning, and Generative AI.
• Provide secure, reliable self-service access to trusted telemetry and enterprise data for engineering, data science, and business teams.

Drive Data Quality, Governance, and Operational Excellence

• Define and enforce data quality standards, ownership, controls, and measurable SLAs across critical data products.
• Implement data profiling, validation, reconciliation, lineage, observability, anomaly detection, and root-cause remediation capabilities.
• Establish monitoring, incident management, disaster recovery, and service-level objectives for business-critical data services.
• Lead platform modernization, performance optimization, security, compliance, and cloud cost optimization initiatives.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or a related field.
• 12+ years of experience in data engineering, data platform engineering, distributed systems, or large-scale data technologies.
• 6+ years of experience leading engineering teams and delivering enterprise-scale, production data solutions.
• Deep hands-on expertise in Amazon Redshift, including dimensional modeling, distribution and sort strategies, workload management, query and storage optimization, security, scaling, and cost management.
• Proven experience integrating high-volume vehicle, IoT, connected-product, or telemetry data with enterprise transactional and master data.
• Strong knowledge of data quality management, including profiling, validation, reconciliation, lineage, observability, quality metrics, and remediation processes.
• Experience creating curated, governed, reusable data products and AI-ready datasets for analytics, machine learning, and Generative AI.
• Deep understanding of batch and streaming architectures, schema evolution, event processing, time-series data, data contracts, and distributed data systems.
• Strong AWS experience and hands-on knowledge of technologies such as S3, Glue, Lambda, Kinesis or Kafka, Airflow, Spark, IAM, Terraform, CI/CD, and observability platforms.
• Strong programming skills in Python and SQL, with experience in Java and/or Scala preferred.
• Strong software engineering foundation and experience operating secure, reliable, petabyte-scale data platforms in production.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to translate business and AI use cases into scalable technical solutions.

Why Join Us

You will lead a strategic engineering organization responsible for connecting vehicle telemetry and enterprise data to create trusted, governed, AI-ready foundations. This is an opportunity to shape the AWS and Amazon Redshift data platform, improve data quality and accessibility at enterprise scale, enable advanced analytics and AI, and develop a world-class engineering team.

Salary Range: Base Pay Range (Annual) $211,400 — $310,090 USD

Compensation & Benefits: Lucid offers a comprehensive and competitive benefits package including medical, dental, and vision insurance; life and disability coverage; paid time off; paid holidays, paid sick leave; and a401(k) retirementplan. Hourly/non-exempt employees accrue up to 120 hours paid time off, and salaried/exempt employee accrue up to 160 hours paid time off. Eligible employees may also participate in Lucid’s equity program and/or a discretionary annual cash incentive program. Incentive and equity awards, if applicable, are determined based on individual performance, role scope, market considerations, and overall company results, in accordance with the terms of the applicable plans.

Equal Opportunity: At Lucid, we believe diversity strengthens everything we build. Lucid Motors is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and is committed to providing an inclusive workplace for all. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national or ethnic origin, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, marital status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable state or federal laws and regulations.

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