Staff Tech Lead Manager, ML Data Services

Motional is a driverless technology company making autonomous vehicles a safe, reliable, and accessible reality. They are seeking a highly experienced Staff Tech Lead Manager to lead the development and operation of their core machine learning data infrastructure, ensuring high-quality data for all ML use cases. The role involves technical leadership, team management, and collaboration with various teams to deliver solutions that accelerate ML development cycles.

Responsibilities:

• Define and drive the technical roadmap and long-term strategy for the ML Data Service platform, ensuring it meets the evolving needs of ML engineers across the company
• Serve as the top technical expert for the team, architecting complex, highly scalable, and fault-tolerant systems for data ingestion, transformation, and serving
• Lead the technical vision for the provision of diverse training data sources, including ingestion from real-world drive logs, resimulation outputs, autolabelling pipelines, and human labelling efforts
• Drive the implementation of robust mechanisms for monitoring data quality, tracking data lineage, and ensuring overall data governance and compliance
• Provide hands-on technical guidance, design reviews, and mentorship to engineers, ensuring the adoption of best practices, high code quality, and operational excellence
• Manage a team of software engineers, including performance reviews, career development, coaching, and mentoring
• Act as a technical leader-manager hybrid, balancing 50% management duties with 50% technical leadership, architecture, and hands-on coding/design
• Drive hiring and recruitment efforts to attract, onboard, and retain top engineering talent, fostering a diverse and inclusive team culture
• Champion engineering excellence, operational rigor, and a strong sense of ownership within the team
• Collaborate closely with ML model teams and Infrastructure teams to understand data needs and deliver solutions that accelerate ML development cycles
• Lead the execution of major projects, ensuring on-time delivery and alignment with business objectives
• Communicate complex technical concepts and strategic direction effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, including executive leadership