Hiring: Staff Technical Program Manager Company: XPENG Location: Santa Clara, CA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-12 03:28:52 Employment Type: Full-time Target Skills & Keywords : Agile, Data Lake, Data Pipeline, Iceberg, Kafka, Kubernetes, Machine Learning, Make, Parquet, R, Spark About the job Experience: •5 years + of technical program management experience in engineering or related fields. Required Skills: •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. Qualifications: •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. •In-depth knowledge of large-scale data systems, cloud infrastructure, and data pipelines. •Proven hands-on experience in establishing strong software development processes. •Practical experience utilizing 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. •Operational 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. Compensation: •$125,580 - $212,520 / year Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!