Wayve
Lead Technical Program Manager, Data
Sunnyvale, California USA · Senior · Full-time
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About the role
- The data corpus is also critical for teams working on simulation and validation.
- You will leading flagship programs yourself while supporting and coaching a small, high-impact TPM team.
- Your impact is measured in data quality, throughput, cost, and how predictably the data that powers every model lands.
Responsibilities
- Lead the function: Build, coach, and grow a small TPM team
- Own data delivery: Partner with Data leadership on planning, prioritisation, and execution across the data roadmap.
- Trusted partner for Engineering: You are a leader in the org. You will maintain the partnership with Engineering leaders to land big outcomes, pushing teams to land impact with high leverage and hold leaders to account.
- Drive flagship programs directly: Data platform, data pipelines, enrichment & curation, labelling / annotation, and dataset management and quality.
- manage dependencies, risk, and trade-offs.
- People leadership: You build, coach, and grow high-performing teams, and raise the bar on the craft.
- Lead the function: Build, coach, and grow a small TPM team; hire to fill gaps and raise the bar.
Requirements
- Experience with distributed data platforms at Petabyte scale.
- Experience with data ingestion from raw data to processing through different stages and pipelines.
- Working experience with a large scale distributed data platform used by 100s of engineers and researchers.
- An engineering or computer science degree, or experience working as an engineer
- An engineering or computer science degree, or experience working as an engineer; fluent with modern delivery tooling (e.g. Jira).
Compensation
- This role is a full-time role based in Sunnyvale, CA (hybrid) and the reasonably estimated salary for this role ranges from $259,200 to $312,400, plus a competitive equity package.
Benefits
- Solid understanding of Machine Learning, GPUs and training and inference of 500M-20B parameter models.
Company info
- In order to set you up for success as a Lead Technical Program Manager, Data at Wayve, we're looking for the following skills and experience. (The first four are our must-haves.)
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