Principal Technical Lead Manager - AI Data Applications

Mission Summary

We are seeking an experienced and visionary Principal Technical Lead Manager to build and lead our new AI Data Application team. This pivotal role will drive the strategy, development, and execution of initiatives aimed at significantly accelerating our ML dataset generation and data search applications. The ultimate goal is to drastically reduce the development cycle for new pipelines, ML models and get us operationally prepared for a driverless future!

You will be a hands-on leader, blending deep technical expertise in data systems and infrastructure with strong leadership and people management skills. You will recruit, mentor, and grow a high-performing team of engineers, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvements.

What You'll Be Doing

* Team Leadership & Management: * + Build, lead, and manage a high-performing team of full stack web engineers. + Define team goals, priorities, and roadmap in alignment with company objectives.

Provide technical guidance, mentorship, and career development opportunities to team members. + * Technical Strategy & Execution: * + Define the technical vision and strategy for building services and web platforms for storing and searching metadata and forming datasets. + Define AI adoption strategy for frontend codebase and UX projects to speed up development and time to market.

Identify and evaluate cutting-edge technologies and methodologies for querying through datasets stored in various types of databases (think images in vector store, metadata in Postgres, etc) and APIs owned by several teams across the company. + * Cross-functional Collaboration: * + Collaborate closely with data mining, ML researchers, and other data platform teams to understand their needs and integrate solutions seamlessly. + Communicate complex technical concepts and strategies to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

What We're Looking For

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