Technical Program Manager - Autonomous Driving Data Lake

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

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation package

Snacks, meals, and activities

Job summary

XPENG is seeking a Staff Technical Program Manager in Santa Clara, CA to lead the autonomous-driving training data lake. You will drive data collection, processing, and delivery across data, ML, simulation, and vehicle-engineering teams.

You will define roadmaps, measure data quality, manage datasets and metadata, and optimize costs while guiding cross-functional execution and scalable data platforms for next-generation autonomous driving models.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's in CS 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.
• Experience in 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

Cross-functional program management

Data infrastructure

Cloud infrastructure

Data pipelines

Problem-solving

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS or related engineering

Tools

Spark

Ray

Kafka

Iceberg

Parquet

Kubernetes

Job description

XPENG is seeking a Staff Technical Program Manager in Santa Clara, CA to lead the autonomous-driving training data lake. You will drive data collection, processing, and delivery across data, ML, simulation, and vehicle-engineering teams.

You will define roadmaps, measure data quality, manage datasets and metadata, and optimize costs while guiding cross-functional execution and scalable data platforms for next-generation autonomous driving models.