Senior Machine Learning Engineer - Foundation Model

XPeng • Santa Clara, CA

107d • $174,720 - $295,680

About The Position

XPeng Motors is one of China's leading smart electric vehicle ("EV") companies. We design, develop, manufacture and market smart EVs that are seamlessly integrated with advanced Internet, AI and autonomous driving technologies. We are committed to in-house R&D and intelligent manufacturing to create a better mobility experience for our customers. We strive to transform smart electric vehicles with technology and data, shaping the mobility experience of the future. We are looking for a full-time Machine Learning Engineer, with deep knowledge and strong enthusiasm towards establishing a state-of-art ML infrastructure 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.

Requirements

• Master in CS/CE/EE, or equivalent, with 3 + years of industry experience.
• Good knowledge of PyTorch.
• Knowledge of model training framework (e.g. PyTorch Lightning)
• Knowledge of transformer architecture and ways to accelerate the training and inference of transformer models.
• Experience of using pytorch ddp for distributed training of models.

Nice To Haves

• PhD in CS/CE/EE, or equivalent, with 1 + years of industry experience.
• Strong publications records in top academic conferences or journals, e.g. CVPR, NeurIPS, ICML, ICCV, ECCV, ICLR
• Experience in training large scale vision or language models
• Previous experience in the autonomous driving industry.
• Being efficiently in solving complex problems collaboratively on larger teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, train, and deploy large deep learning models that can leverage the vast amount of labeled and unlabeled data from a fleet of million vehicles.

Benefits

• A fun, supportive and engaging environment
• Infrastructures and computational resources to support your work.
• Opportunity to work on cutting edge technologies with the top talents in the field.
• Opportunity to make significant impact on the transportation revolution by the means of advancing autonomous driving
• Competitive compensation package
• Snacks, lunches, dinners, and fun activities

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: Repair and Maintenance
• Education Level: Master's degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees