xpengmotors

Staff Machine Learning Engineer - Foundation Model

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At a Glance

Location
Santa Clara, California, United States
Experience
3+ years
Compensation
or this full-time position is $215,280-$364,320, in addition to bonus, equity
Posted
2026-03-18T14:11:29-04:00

Key Requirements

Required Skills

Deep LearningPyTorch

Domain Knowledge

  • Engineering

Requirements

in deep learning research or productization.

and modern transformer-based model design.

(DDP, FSDP) and large-batch optimization.

Publication record in top-tier AI conferences (CVPR, ICCV, NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, ECCV).

foundation or end-to-end driving models

(e.g., ViT, Flamingo, BEVFormer, RT-2, or GRPO-style policies).

Compensation & Benefits

Snacks, lunches, dinners, and fun activities.

The base salary range for this full-time position is $215,280-$364,320, in addition to bonus, equity and benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. It is our policy to provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified persons without regard to race, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status or marital status or any other prescribed category set forth in federal or state regulations.

Responsibilities

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.).

Research and integrate

(e.g., visual grounding, temporal reasoning, policy distillation, imitation and reinforcement learning) to improve model interpretability and action quality.

Collaborate with infrastructure engineers to