Product Consultant || Autonomous Systems

Seeking a high-caliber Principal Product Consultant to bridge client engineering (Autonomous Driving Software, Foundation Models, Behavior/Planning) and Wipro’s global operations delivery teams. In this strategic role, you will be embedded directly with client engineering teams in Silicon Valley to translate complex non-perception requirements (e.g., End-to-End Foundation Models, EMMA architectures, open/closed-set behavior categorization, and VLM captioning) into scalable operational systems.
You will act as a thought leader, drastically reducing client Program Manager bandwidth, driving quality/productivity architectures, and co-engineering operational workflows alongside your counterpart in India.

Key Responsibilities
● Strategic Client Alignment & Thought Partnership: Serve as the primary technical product interface to client Engineering (Autonomous Systems, ML Evaluation, Behavior/Planning). Move Wipro’s positioning from an operational vendor to a co-engineering strategic partner.
● Non-Perception & ML Workflow Architecture: Deconstruct complex, high-ambiguity client ML requests (EFMs, EMMA, open-set behavior tagging, trajectory prediction, VLM scene captioning) into standardized edge-case taxonomies, tooling specs, and evaluation pipelines.
● Client PgM Bandwidth Offloading: Direct ownership of requirement gathering, technical policy writing, edge-case resolution, and triage drastically reducing the client PgM’s coordination overhead.
● Global Operations Enabling: Work synchronously with the Senior Product Consultant (India) to translate client engineering intent into operational playbooks, automated validation checks, and frontline training modules.
● Continuous Process & Tooling Optimization: Analyze quality and throughput metrics to recommend tooling upgrades, automated pre-labeling features, and optimized annotation/eval workflows directly to client tooling teams.

Qualifications & Skills
● Experience: 10–15+ years in Autonomous Vehicles, Robotics, or Advanced AI/ML Systems, with at least 5+ years in Product Management, Technical Program Management, or Solutions Architecture focused on AV Data/Perception/Behavior.
● Domain Expertise: Deep hands-on knowledge of Non-Perception AV workflows: Behavior/Planning labeling, Foundation Models (EFM/EMMA), Open/Closed-Set taxonomy design, RLHF/Human-in-the-Loop ML evaluation, and VLM/LLM captioning pipelines.
● Technical Depth: Familiarity with ML Evaluation frameworks, edge-case triage, AV perception-fused streams (Lidar/Camera/Radar), and data pipeline architectures.
● Stakeholder Management: Proven track record of working directly with Principal/Staff AV Engineers and Technical PgMs at top autonomous driving companies.
● Education: B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, or related technical field (MBA preferred).