Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer - Foundation Model

XPENG is a leading smart technology company seeking a Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer to drive the development of its next-generation Vision-Language-Action (VLA) Foundation Model for autonomous driving.

Requirements

• Design and implement large-scale multi-modal architectures for end-to-end autonomous driving
• Develop pretraining and fine-tuning strategies leveraging massive labeled and unlabeled fleet data
• Research and integrate cross-modal alignment to improve model interpretability and action quality
• Collaborate with infrastructure engineers to scale training across thousands of GPUs using distributed training frameworks
• Conduct systematic ablation, evaluation, and visualization of model behavior across perception, reasoning, and planning tasks
• Contribute to model deployment optimization, including quantization, export, and latency–accuracy trade-offs for onboard execution

Benefits

• Competitive compensation package
• Snacks, lunches, dinners, and fun activities