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Lead Technical Program Manager, Data

Sunnyvale, California USA💼 Full-time💰 $259,200–$259,200🗓 2026-07-09 → 2026-09-25

Core

Lead the technical program management function for Wayve's Data org, ensuring the data platform, ingestion pipelines, and enrichment/curation processes fuel the AI Driver and simulation teams.

Role type

Lead Technical Program Manager (Data)

Builds

Data platform, ingestion pipelines, enrichment & curation, labelling/annotation, and dataset management

Domain

Autonomous driving / AI / Data Infrastructure

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

People leadership, data program delivery, distributed data platforms (Petabyte scale), data ingestion pipelines, Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs), Machine Learning fundamentals, GPU training/inference, AI Agents, systems thinking, cross-functional leadership, strategic business impact

Preferred skills

Large-scale distributed data platform experience, autonomous vehicles/robotics background, engineering degree or prior engineering experience

Technologies

Databricks, Flyte, Ray, Kubernetes, Azure, Docker, Python

Responsibilities

Build and coach a TPM team; partner with Data leadership on roadmap execution; maintain partnership with Engineering leaders; drive flagship data programs; establish scalable planning and governance practices; align cross-functionally with ML and external suppliers; represent the data org in company reviews

Seniority

Lead, hands-on IC with team leadership

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