Drimva

XPENG Motors

Staff Machine Learning Engineer

$179K–$304K

Santa Clara, CA +1 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Aug 24, 2026

Location
Santa Clara, CA
Mountain View, California, United States
Experience
3-5 + years working with machine learning frameworks; no other duration specified.
Education
Engineering, Robotics, Computer Science, or a related field focused on Reinforcement Learning or Artificial Intelligence, or equivalent experience.

About the job

Develop, evaluate, and deploy reinforcement-learning-based planning methods and production software for autonomous vehicles.

What you'll do

  • Research reinforcement-learning algorithms and design efficient architectures for real-time vehicle planning.
  • Build offline, data-driven infrastructure and use fleet and field-testing data to improve planning models.
  • Evaluate solutions through experiments and testing, and collaborate with perception and systems teams to ship production ML models.

What they ask for

  • Education in Engineering, Robotics, Computer Science, or a related field focused on Reinforcement Learning or Artificial Intelligence, or equivalent experience.
  • Strong applied reinforcement learning experience, including model architecture design, training, data mining, and analytics.
  • 3-5 + years of experience with machine learning frameworks such as PyTorch, Tensorflow.
  • Strong Python programming and software design skills; solid understanding of data structures, algorithms, code optimization, and large-scale data processing.

Nice to have

  • MS or PhD-level education in a relevant field, or equivalent experience; autonomous-driving or robotics production experience.
  • Hands-on experience developing RL-based planning engines; experience with ONNX and TensorRT.

Pay

$179,400 - $303,600 USD base salary

Tools

PyTorch, Tensorflow, Python, ONNX, TensorRT

AI focus

Reinforcement learning for autonomous-driving planning, including model development, real-time deployment, and data-driven adaptation.

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