About the role

What will you do at Lightwheel?

About the Role

We are looking for a Technical Product Manager, Data Infrastructure to own strategic customer data deliveries and help build Lightwheel’s Data Delivery Platform into scalable, reusable infrastructure.

Responsibilities

Own Data Platform — Define and evolve data schemas, validation, adapters, conversion, cloud transfer, APIs/SDKs, observability, and cost optimization.
Drive Customer Delivery — Translate customer requirements into technical specifications, acceptance criteria, and delivery plans; own programs end-to-end through customer acceptance.
Scale Data Operations — Build systems and processes capable of supporting 100K–1M+ data-hour programs with predictable throughput, reliability, and cost.
Solve Complex Technical Problems — Identify and resolve bottlenecks across compute, storage, networking, data pipelines, APIs, and customer ingestion.
Build Scalable Processes — Standardize delivery workflows, quality gates, versioning, and change management to make customer onboarding repeatable and scalable.
Lead Cross-Functional Execution — Work closely with Engineering, Data Operations, Infrastructure, and customers to drive technical delivery and continuously improve the platform.

Qualifications

3+ years of experience in software engineering, data infrastructure, distributed systems, ML/robotics infrastructure, or customer engineering.
Strong hands-on engineering background with Python, APIs/SDKs, AWS/GCP, Kubernetes, and data pipelines.
Experience building or operating production data platforms or large-scale data pipelines.
Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to diagnose bottlenecks across compute, storage, network, and APIs.
Experience working directly with technical customers and leading cross-functional projects.
Fluent in English and Mandarin.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience in robotics, autonomous driving, embodied AI, or Physical AI.
Experience with large-scale video, sensor, multimodal, or ML training datasets.
Familiarity with LeRobot, MCAP, ROS bags, TB/PB-scale data, or cloud data transfer.
Experience in forward-deployed engineering, enterprise data integration, or building infrastructure functions from the ground up.

Which skills does this role require?

PythonData InfrastructureDistributed SystemsAWSGCPKubernetesData PipelinesAPIsSDKsTechnical Product ManagementData SchemasObservabilityCloud TransferCross-functional LeadershipCustomer EngineeringTechnical Product ManagerData PlatformML InfrastructureCost OptimizationScalable InfrastructureMachine Learning

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