XPENG Motors
Staff Technical Program Manager
$126K–$213K
Santa Clara, CA +1 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Aug 3, 2026
- Location
- Santa Clara, CA
Mountain View, California, United States - Experience
- 5 years + of technical program management experience in engineering or related fields.
- Education
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science or another related engineering field.
About the job
Leads cross-functional programs to build and operate the autonomous-driving training data lake, ensuring training data is reliable, high-quality, and delivered efficiently at scale.
What you'll do
- Manage the data lake roadmap across collection, ingestion, processing, storage, curation, and delivery; track performance KPIs.
- Coordinate data, machine learning, annotation, simulation, and autonomous-driving teams, resolving technical risks and bottlenecks.
- Drive dataset versioning, metadata, lineage, reproducibility, and improvements to engineering planning and operational processes.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science or a 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.
Nice to have
- Experience with autonomous-driving data platforms, machine learning infrastructure, or large-scale training-data systems.
- Familiarity with technologies such as object storage, Spark, Ray, Kafka, Iceberg, Parquet, or Kubernetes.
Pay
$125,580 - $212,520 USD base salary
Tools
Spark, Ray, Kafka, Iceberg, Parquet, Kubernetes
AI focus
Supports autonomous-driving model development by managing the collection, processing, governance, and delivery of training data.
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