Staff Technical PM: Autonomous Driving Data Lake

Xpengmotors; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 126,000 - 213,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Snacks and meals provided

Engaging work environment

Impact on transportation revolution

Job summary

XPENG is seeking a Staff Technical Program Manager focused on the Autonomous Driving Training Data Lake to drive cross-functional programs for large-scale data collection, processing, and governance. You will work with data infrastructure, ML, simulation, and vehicle engineering teams to ensure high-quality training data for model development.

You will lead efforts to create scalable data pipelines, establish data lineage, and track performance metrics while optimizing cost and reliability in a

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's in computer science or related engineering field.
• 5+ years of technical program management experience in engineering.
• Experience leading cross-functional data, infrastructure, software, or ML programs.
• Strong understanding of large-scale data systems and cloud infrastructure.
• Mandarin speaking is required.
• Excellent problem-solving skills.
• Experience establishing strong software development processes.

Responsibilities

• Define and manage the roadmap for the autonomous-driving training data lake, covering data collection, ingestion, processing, storage, curation, and delivery.
• Coordinate execution across data infrastructure, machine learning, annotation, simulation, and autonomous-driving algorithm teams.
• Establish and track KPIs for data quality, pipeline reliability, processing latency, dataset readiness, storage efficiency, and infrastructure cost.
• Drive programs for dataset generation, versioning, metadata management, lineage, and reproducibility.
• Identify technical risks and bottlenecks in data pipelines, infrastructure capacity, and training-data delivery, and lead cross-functional resolution.
• Improve engineering planning, agile development practices, dependency management, and operational processes across data platform teams.

Skills

Technical program management

Cross-functional leadership

Large-scale data systems

Mandarin

Cloud infrastructure

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/engineering

Tools

Spark

Kafka

Kubernetes

Ray

Iceberg

Job description

XPENG is seeking a Staff Technical Program Manager focused on the Autonomous Driving Training Data Lake to drive cross-functional programs for large-scale data collection, processing, and governance. You will work with data infrastructure, ML, simulation, and vehicle engineering teams to ensure high-quality training data for model development.

You will lead efforts to create scalable data pipelines, establish data lineage, and track performance metrics while optimizing cost and reliability in a