Hiring: Senior Machine Learning Engineer - Foundation Model Company: XPENG Location: Santa Clara, CA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-12 03:28:52 Employment Type: Full-time Target Skills & Keywords : Deep Learning, Fine-tuning, LLM, Machine Learning, Make, PyTorch, R, Reinforcement Learning, Transformers About the job Experience: •3+ years of experience •1+ years of relevant industry experience. Required Skills: •Design and implement •(e.g., vision–language–action transformers) for end-to-end autonomous driving. •Leveraging massive labeled and unlabeled fleet data (images, video, LiDAR, CAN bus, maps, human driving behaviors, etc.). •(e.g., visual grounding, temporal reasoning, policy distillation, imitation and reinforcement learning) to improve model interpretability and action quality. •Partner cross-functionally with infrastructure engineers to •Scale training across thousands of GPUs •Using distributed training frameworks (FSDP, DDP, etc.). •Systematic ablation, evaluation, and visualization Qualifications: •Master’s degree or higher in •Computer Science, Electrical/Computer Engineering, or related field •3+ years of experience •In deep learning research or productization. •And modern transformer-based model design. Compensation: •$174,720 - $295,680 / year Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!