# Senior Machine Learning Engineer - AI Foundation

XPENG is a leading smart technology company at the forefront of innovation, integrating advanced AI and autonomous driving technologies into its vehicles, including electric vehicles (EVs), electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft, and robotics. With a strong focus on intelligent mobility, XPENG is dedicated to reshaping the future of transportation through cutting-edge R&D in AI, machine learning, and smart connectivity. We are looking for a full-time Machine Learning Engineer - AI Foundation, with deep knowledge and strong enthusiasm towardsestablishing a state-of-artMLinfrastructure for training very large foundation model and accelerating model training/inference. Our mission is to solve the autonomous driving problem. You will work with a team of talented software engineers, machine learning engineers and research scientists to push the boundary of state-of-art machine learning models which will enable the next-generation E2E solution of autonomous driving. Job Responsibilities: Design and implement training data pipeline that streams data from hundreds of petabytes of labeled and unlabeled data from a fleet of over a million vehicles. Implement training framew

- **Id**: 1019205
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/xpengmotors-com-senior-machine-learning-engineer-ai-foundation>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Santa Clara, United States, Mountain View, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-17T01:00:08Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-09-17
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T19:59:51Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 54
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3592
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Artificial Intelligence, Autonomous Driving, Automotive Manufacturing

## Company

- **Id**: 686006
- **Name**: XPeng
- **Domain**: xpengmotors.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/xpengmotors>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 83
- **Open postings**: 6
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.5
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 74
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 174720
- **Max**: 295680
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 295680

## Technologies

- **Accelerate** — Optional: no
- **CUDA** — Optional: no
- **FSDP** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **Physical AI** — Optional: no
- **PyTorch** — Optional: no
- **Ray** — Optional: no
- **Reinforcement Learning** — Optional: no
- **Reinforcement Learning** — Optional: no
- **SGLang** — Optional: no
- **Vision-Language-Action** — Optional: no
- **vLLM** — Optional: no
- **VLM** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 54

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: master
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-18T02:29:04Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 63
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.84
- **P room**: 0.75
- **Age days**: 54
- **Expected fill days**: 74
- **Reasons**: conf:2, win:late
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 295680
- **Is top pay**: yes

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