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Senior Machine Learning Engineer - Foundation Model

XPeng

Santa Clara, CA · full time · Senior

$174,720 – $295,680

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What this role is

This role involves building and optimizing large-scale vision-language-action foundation models that form the core of XPENG's autonomous driving systems. You'll design multi-modal architectures, lead pretraining strategies on massive fleet data, and collaborate across research and infrastructure teams to deploy intelligent models for next-generation vehicles.

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What they ask for

Required

  • Master's degree or higher in Computer Science, Electrical/Computer Engineering, or related field
  • 3+ years of deep learning research or productization experience
  • Proficiency in PyTorch and transformer-based model design
  • Experience with large-scale pretraining or multi-modal modeling
  • Understanding of representation learning, temporal modeling, and self-supervised or reinforcement learning
  • Familiarity with distributed training frameworks and large-batch optimization

Nice to have

  • PhD in CS/CE/EE or related field with 1+ years of industry experience
  • Published work in top-tier AI conferences (CVPR, ICCV, NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, ECCV)
  • Experience building foundation models, end-to-end driving models, or LLM/VLM architectures (ViT, Flamingo, BEVFormer, RT-2, GRPO)
  • Familiarity with RLHF, DPO, GRPO, trajectory prediction, or policy learning for control
  • Cross-functional collaboration experience with infrastructure, perception, and planning teams

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