Staff TPM: Autonomous Driving Data Lake Lead

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

Benefits offered by this job

Fun environment

Impact on transportation revolution

Cutting-edge technologies

Competitive compensation package

Snacks and meals

Job summary

XPENG is a leading smart technology company driving innovation in autonomous driving, EVs, and robotics. We seek a Staff Technical Program Manager to lead the Autonomous Driving Training Data Lake at scale, coordinating data infrastructure, ML, simulation, and vehicle engineering teams to deliver high-quality training data.

You will define roadmaps, drive dataset generation and governance, and optimize data quality, latency, and cost while advancing XPENG’s autonomous-driving lifecycle with

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or master's degree 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.
• Excellent problem-solving skills.
• Strong understanding of large-scale data systems, cloud infrastructure, and data pipelines.

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, ML, 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

Problem-solving

Mandarin proficiency

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in computer science or related engineering

Tools

Kubernetes

Spark

Kafka

Parquet

Iceberg

Ray

Job description

XPENG is a leading smart technology company driving innovation in autonomous driving, EVs, and robotics. We seek a Staff Technical Program Manager to lead the Autonomous Driving Training Data Lake at scale, coordinating data infrastructure, ML, simulation, and vehicle engineering teams to deliver high-quality training data.

You will define roadmaps, drive dataset generation and governance, and optimize data quality, latency, and cost while advancing XPENG’s autonomous-driving lifecycle with