Staff Technical Program Manager

The role

Lead cross-functional programs for the autonomous-driving training data lake. Define the roadmap for data collection, processing, curation and delivery, and coordinate data infrastructure, machine learning, annotation, simulation and algorithm teams.

What you will do

• Define and manage the roadmap for the autonomous-driving training data lake.
• Coordinate execution across data infrastructure, machine learning, annotation, simulation and algorithm teams.
• Establish and track KPIs for data quality, pipeline reliability, latency, dataset readiness, storage efficiency and cost.
• Drive programs for dataset generation, versioning, metadata management, lineage and reproducibility.
• Identify technical risks and bottlenecks in data pipelines and infrastructure, and lead cross-functional resolution.
• Improve engineering planning, agile practices, dependency management and operational processes across data platform teams.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's 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.
• Excellent problem-solving skills.
• Experience in establishing strong software development processes.

Nice to have

• 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 object storage, Spark, Ray, Kafka, Iceberg, Parquet, Kubernetes or similar systems.
• Understanding of machine learning data workflows, including curation, annotation, training, evaluation and closed-loop improvement.
• Experience managing 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 through 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.

Before you apply

• Mandarin speaking is required.

About the company

XPENG is a smart technology company integrating AI and autonomous driving into electric vehicles, eVTOL aircraft and robotics. It focuses on intelligent mobility and cutting-edge R&D in AI, machine learning and smart connectivity.