Staff TPM - Autonomous Driving Data Lake

XPENG; Sacramento (CA); On-site; USD 126,000 - 213,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Snacks and meals

Team events

Competitive compensation

Job summary

XPENG is seeking a Staff Technical Program Manager for the Autonomous Driving Training Data Lake to lead cross-functional programs ensuring scalable data collection, processing, governance and delivery for training models.

You will collaborate with data infrastructure, ML, simulation, vehicle engineering, annotation and algorithm teams to improve data quality, velocity and cost efficiency across the autonomous-driving development lifecycle.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's in computer science or related engineering field.
• 5+ years of technical program management experience in engineering or related fields.
• Experience leading complex cross-functional data, infrastructure, software, or machine learning programs.
• Strong understanding of large-scale data systems, cloud infrastructure, and data pipelines.
• Mandarin speaking is required.
• 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

Data pipelines

Cloud infrastructure

Mandarin

Problem solving

Software development processes

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/Engineering

Tools

Spark

Kafka

Iceberg

Parquet

Kubernetes

Job description

XPENG is seeking a Staff Technical Program Manager for the Autonomous Driving Training Data Lake to lead cross-functional programs ensuring scalable data collection, processing, governance and delivery for training models.

You will collaborate with data infrastructure, ML, simulation, vehicle engineering, annotation and algorithm teams to improve data quality, velocity and cost efficiency across the autonomous-driving development lifecycle.