# Technical Lead Manager, ML Dataset Platform at Waabi

- Company: Waabi
- What the company does: Transform your supply chain with Waabi’s AI-first autonomous trucking solution. Scale freight operations, improve safety, and boost efficiency. Learn more. Backed by Khosla.
- Company website: https://waabi.ai/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco, CA
- Work setup: Hybrid
- Pay: $200K to $280K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-11-05
- Apply by: 2026-12-20
- Apply: https://jobs.lever.co/waabi/a5a30846-7b4c-48c3-9d4c-1f715a1b0328?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/waabi-technical-lead-manager-ml-dataset-platform/

## About the role

As TLM of the ML Datasets Platform, you will play a critical role defining the APIs, tooling, and storage formats that make datasets a shared, first-class asset at Waabi: versioned, efficiently updatable, fully traceable, and fast to load across GPU workloads. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- Deep ML dataset experience: You have designed and built large-scale data infrastructure for ML training (storage formats, dataset versioning, ETL, dataloading) and understand the performance characteristics of petabyte-scale sensor or multimodal data
- Proven technical leadership: You have led a platform or infrastructure effort used by multiple teams, defined its APIs, and driven adoption across an organization
- People leadership: You have managed or tech-led a team of engineers, including hiring and mentoring, and can balance hands-on technical contribution with roadmap ownership and stakeholder management
- Team player: You communicate clearly with researchers and engineers, build consensus across teams with different needs, and deliver in a fast-paced environment

Tags: Autonomy & Algorithms

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