# Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer – Autonomous Driving Foundation Models

Hiring organization: [XPeng](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/xpeng)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/cbd5ed0d-42e3-4ce5-9741-41447ea95542

Listed on XPeng's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Employment type: full time
- Seniority: Senior Staff
- Location: Santa Clara, CA
- Salary: 244140 – 413160 USD per year

## Summary

XPENG is hiring a senior machine learning engineer to lead the development of vision-language-action models and world models for autonomous driving at scale. This role suits someone with deep expertise in foundation models and reinforcement learning who can architect end-to-end systems balancing research innovation with production-vehicle requirements.

_Our summary, not XPeng's wording._

## Skills named

Deep Learning, LLMs (Large Language Models), PyTorch, Reinforcement Learning

## Required

- 5-8 years of deep learning expertise
- Experience training and deploying foundation models at scale
- Mastery of PyTorch and distributed training frameworks
- Understanding of sequential decision making or policy gradient methods
- Product-first mindset balancing research with production requirements

## Nice to have

- Background in vision-language models or embodied AI
- Experience with online or offline reinforcement learning
- Track record with world models or latent dynamics

Apply on XPeng's site: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/xpengmotors/jobs/8465375002