Wayve

Tech Lead, Ingestion Systems

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Sunnyvale, CA, USAStaff+

Base Salary

$276k - $294k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Define and execute the technical roadmap for scalable data pipeline capabilities.
  • Lead the design and implementation of data ingestion, transformation, and distribution pipelines.
  • Normalize disparate internal and external data sources into formats optimized for AI training and research.
  • Collaborate with robotics, ML engineering, research, and data governance teams.
  • Establish observability, alerting, monitoring, reliability, and service-level practices for pipelines.
  • Improve pipeline latency, scalability, bottleneck reduction, and failure recovery.
  • Mentor engineering talent and contribute to hiring and onboarding.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of software engineering experience focused on scalable, complex data pipelines.
  • At least 3+ years leading or architecting data engineering projects.
  • Proven technical leadership in pipeline engineering or a related domain.
  • Expertise with modern data pipeline architectures and DAG-based orchestration tools such as Airflow, Flyte, or Ray.
  • Strong understanding of data engineering practices, distributed processing frameworks, and pipeline optimization.
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills for interdisciplinary work.
  • Track record of mentorship and talent development.
  • Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
  • Experience with robotics or autonomous-vehicle sensor data pipelines is desirable.
  • Familiarity with third-party dataset ingestion and transformation is desirable.
  • Understanding of data governance and compliance frameworks such as GDPR, TISAX, or ASPICE is desirable.
  • Hands-on experience integrating observability and monitoring solutions is desirable.

Benefits

  • Full-time role based in Sunnyvale, California, with a hybrid work arrangement.
  • Competitive equity package.
  • Inclusive interview experience and workplace accommodations are available.

Tech Stack

Apache Airflow

Categories

Data Engineering
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About Wayve

1,001-5,000 employees
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