# Technical Lead Manager, ML Dataset Platform

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. The technical challenge is to find the right abstractions so that every ML team can integrate with the platform for its model development use case without being forced into a one-size-fits-all mold, and without building its own data infrastructure on the side. You will do this as a hands-on technical leader who also grows and manages the team, sets its roadmap, and partners closely with the ML Training Platform team and the ML development teams who are the platform's customers. You will… Lead and grow the ML Dataset Platform team as both its technical lead and people manager: set the technical direction, define the roadmap, hire, and mentor engineers. Define the APIs, tools and storage formats for Waabi's ML datasets, balancing maximal reuse of data and tooling against the specific needs of each training workload. Build the tooling to manage datasets at scale, including versioning and efficient incremental updates without f

- **Id**: 3833459
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/waabi-technical-lead-manager-ml-dataset-platform>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Francisco, United States, Toronto, Canada, Pittsburgh, United States
- **Countries**: US, CA
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-05T15:20:53Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-05
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T00:40:50Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 4
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- **Industries**: Autonomous Driving

## Company

- **Id**: 4483
- **Name**: Waabi
- **Domain**: waabi.ai
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/waabi>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Lever

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 88
- **Open postings**: 57
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.263
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- **Time to fill p50 days**: 76
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Technologies

- **ETL/ELT** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **PyTorch** — Optional: no
- **Ray** — Optional: no
- **Spark** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 4

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-05T20:14:32Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 9; Filings 12m: 9

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- **Score**: 90
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
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- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 3
- **Expected fill days**: 76
- **Reasons**: conf:1, velocity, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

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