Technical Lead Manager, ML Dataset Platform
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WaabiAutonomous transportation
Remote US & CanadaFull-TimeManager
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Job Details
- Required Skills
- PythonETLPyTorchSparkDistributed Systems
Requirements
- Have designed and built large-scale data infrastructure for ML training, including storage formats, dataset versioning, ETL, and dataloading.
- Understand performance characteristics of petabyte-scale sensor or multimodal data.
- Have very strong Python skills and be comfortable with PyTorch training loops.
- Have strong software-engineering fundamentals and experience with distributed systems, cloud storage, and data-processing frameworks such as Spark, Ray, or Beam.
- Have led a platform or infrastructure effort used by multiple teams, defined its APIs, and driven organizational adoption.
- Have managed or tech-led an engineering team, including hiring and mentoring, while balancing hands-on technical work and roadmap ownership.
- Communicate clearly with researchers and engineers and build consensus across teams with different needs.
- Bonus: Experience with ML data infrastructure in autonomous driving or robotics, including multi-sensor logs, LiDAR, cameras, or HD maps.
- Bonus: Experience with columnar or tensor storage formats such as Parquet, Lance, WebDataset, or Zarr, and dataset versioning tools.
- Bonus: Experience with multi-cloud or hybrid training environments, data lineage, metadata catalogs, or feature-store systems.
Responsibilities
- Lead and grow the ML Dataset Platform team, setting technical direction and roadmap, hiring, and mentoring engineers.
- Define APIs, tools, and storage formats for ML datasets across training workloads.
- Build dataset-management tooling for versioning and efficient incremental updates.
- Design APIs for training-time transformations, from ahead-of-time ETL to dynamic data-loader transformations.
- Own common dataloading tools and provide observability into bottlenecks and training-job throughput.
- Streamline data access for multi-cloud training with predictable cost and latency.
- Make data lineage automatic across datasets, from raw data through trained models.
- Partner with the ML Training Platform team and ML development teams on platform boundaries and shared tooling.
- Work with model teams to migrate training data to the platform and feed findings into the roadmap.
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