5 months ago
Base Salary
$215k - $364k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop control and learning-based algorithms for humanoid locomotion, whole-body control, motion generation, and sim-to-real transfer.
- Contribute to the robotics team’s technical direction by identifying key problems, proposing practical solutions, and helping prioritize engineering efforts.
- Work with simulation, software, hardware, AI, data, and China-based engineering teams to translate robot performance goals into executable plans.
- Mentor engineers through design reviews, code reviews, experiments, and technical discussions.
Requirements
- Master’s or Ph.D. degree in Robotics, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
- 5+ years of relevant experience in reinforcement learning, robotics, robot learning, control systems, or related areas.
- Strong background in robot dynamics, control, motion planning, reinforcement learning, imitation learning, or whole-body control.
- Familiarity with PPO, SAC, behavior cloning, diffusion policies, and other modern robot-learning methods.
- Excellent communication skills and ability to work across disciplines, locations, and organizational boundaries.
- Strong ownership mindset and ability to operate effectively in a fast-moving, ambiguous research-to-product environment.
- Publications or strong project experience in robotics, reinforcement learning, legged locomotion, humanoid control, or embodied AI preferred.
- Experience technically leading projects or mentoring engineers preferred.
- Hands-on experience with legged robot control, testing, or operation preferred.
Benefits
- Supportive and engaging work environment with opportunities to make a significant impact on robotics.
- Opportunities to work on cutting-edge technologies with leading talent.
- Competitive compensation, equity, and benefits.
- Lunches, snacks, and team activities.
- Full-time position in the US.
Categories
ML EngineeringRobotics
About XPENG
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.