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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.\nYou will be a senior engineer on the team building our internal AI engineering platform - the systems, services, and automation that power how our engineers build and ship software. A core mission is connecting agents to real engineering decisions: giving agents a connected, semantic view of our systems and data, and letting them propose and safely execute actions against operational systems. The agentic layer (NL intake, agentic trouble-shooting, task orchestration, auto-research loop) is an important component, but the foundation of this role is strong software engineering: designing robust distributed systems, building reliable services and pipelines, and relentlessly automating manual workflows. 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