Staff Technical Program Manager

About the role

As a Staff Technical Program Manager focused on the Autonomous Driving Training Data Lake, you will lead cross-functional programs that enable large-scale data collection, processing, governance, and delivery for autonomous-driving model development. You will work closely with data infrastructure, machine learning, simulation, vehicle engineering, annotation, and algorithm teams to ensure that high-quality training data is available reliably, efficiently, and at scale. Your work will directly improve the quality, velocity, reliability, and cost efficiency of the data used to train and validate mass-market autonomous-driving systems.

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.

Requirements

• Bachelors or Masters in computer science or other 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.
• Experience in establishing strong software development processes.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with autonomous-driving data platforms, machine learning infrastructure, or large-scale training-data systems.
• Experience managing large-scale data lakes, distributed data pipelines, or cloud infrastructure programs.
• Familiarity with data technologies such as object storage, Spark, Ray, Kafka, Iceberg, Parquet, Kubernetes, or similar systems.
• Understanding of machine learning data workflows, including data curation, annotation, training, evaluation, and closed-loop improvement.
• Experience managing complex cross-functional programs across multiple teams, locations, or time zones.

Benefits

• A fun, supportive and engaging environment.
• Opportunity to make a significant impact on the transportation revolution by advancing autonomous driving.
• Opportunity to work on cutting-edge technologies with top talent in the field.
• Competitive compensation package.
• Snacks, lunches, dinners, and fun activities.

Pay

The base salary range for this full-time position is $125,580 - $212,520, in addition to bonus, equity, and benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.