XPENG

Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer – Autonomous Driving Foundation Models

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5 months ago
Santa Clara, CA, USAStaff+
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Base Salary

$244k - $413k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Lead the design of end-to-end Vision-Language-Action architectures connecting multimodal perception, linguistic reasoning, and action generation
  • Drive research and development of generative world models and latent dynamics for controllable driving simulation
  • Apply online and offline reinforcement learning and imitation learning to improve long-horizon driving policies and multi-agent interaction handling
  • Define scaling laws and oversee data curation, automated labeling, and post-training for multi-billion-parameter driving foundation models
  • Lead model adaptation for overseas road conditions, traffic laws, and driving cultures

Requirements

  • 5–8 years of deep learning experience
  • Significant experience with VLM, VLA, or embodied AI
  • Experience training and deploying foundation models, including Transformers and LLMs, at scale
  • Deep understanding of sequential decision-making, world models, or policy-gradient methods
  • Mastery of PyTorch and distributed training technologies such as DeepSpeed and Megatron
  • Ability to balance advanced research with the deterministic requirements of L4 production vehicles

Benefits

  • Supportive and engaging work environment
  • Infrastructure and computational resources for ML model development and research
  • Opportunity to work with leading talent on cutting-edge technologies
  • Snacks, lunches, dinners, and fun activities
  • Competitive compensation package

Tech Stack

Categories

AI ResearchML Engineering
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About XPENG

1,001-5,000 employees

XPENG designs, manufactures, and sells smart electric vehicles for consumers, integrating in-house advanced driver-assistance systems and connected in-car software. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Guangzhou, it operates plants in Zhaoqing and Guangzhou, maintains a European HQ in Amsterdam, and develops eVTOL aircraft via XPENG AEROHT.

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