# Senior Staff AI Data Infrastructure/Pipeline Engineer

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

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/daed06d6-eb66-4456-b116-2a855d429437

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

- Employment type: full time
- Seniority: Senior
- Location: Santa Clara, CA
- Salary: 203450 – 344300 USD per year

## Summary

XPeng seeks a senior engineer to design and optimize end-to-end data pipelines for autonomous driving systems, handling petabyte-scale sensor data from collection through model training. This role suits experienced infrastructure engineers who want to work on mission-critical systems that directly accelerate autonomous vehicle development.

_Our summary, not XPeng's wording._

## Skills named

Apache Iceberg, Apache Kafka, Docker, Go, Java, Kubernetes, MongoDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Python, RabbitMQ, Redis

## Required

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, or related field
- 5–8+ years of large-scale data processing or data platform development
- Proficiency in Python, Go, or Java with solid software engineering practices
- Hands-on experience in at least two of: large-scale ETL pipelines, distributed message queues, data lake systems, columnar storage formats, relational/NoSQL databases, distributed systems performance optimization, or containerization

## Nice to have

- Familiarity with closed-loop data in embodied AI
- Understanding of autonomous driving industry and data flywheel concepts
- Experience with AI infrastructure or model training workflows
- Practical experience with data version control and data lineage tracing
- Open-source contributions or technical blog presence

Apply on XPeng's site: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/xpengmotors/jobs/8530502002