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Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer – Autonomous Driving Foundation Models
XPengSanta Clara, CA · full time · Senior Staff
$244,140 – $413,160
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What this role is
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.
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What they ask for
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