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XPENG · 3 weeks ago

Staff Software Engineer

Santa Clara, CA

Full-time

Hybrid

Lead/Staff

$179K/yr - $304K/yr

10+ years exp

XPENG is a leading smart technology company focused on integrating advanced AI and autonomous driving technologies into its vehicles. They are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to design and implement scalable distributed systems for autonomy software evaluation and collaborate with multiple teams to enhance infrastructure for innovative projects.

AutomotiveAutonomous VehiclesElectric VehicleManufacturing

Responsibilities

Design , Architect and implement company scale distributed system for next generation of the autonomy software evaluation

Collaborate with multiple teams in side XPENG to deliver best in class infrastructure for next generation of XPENG innnovations

Demonstrate a can-do attitude and able to thrive at a high pace, always evolving landscape of requirements

Collaborate with stake holders to deliver highly complex and flexible infrastructure to meet their use cases, SLA and QOS

Design and implement tools and infrastructure to improve engineering efficiency of machine learning engineers daily workflows

Design and implement complex workflow on cloud and on premise infrastructure to provide insights into Software Quality and Release Readiness of features

Leverage LLMs to bring efficiency to existing established processes of triaging, analysis and troubleshooting

Qualification

Kubernetes (K8S)C++PythonMachine Learning InfrastructureBazelMLOpsCloud InfrastructureDealing with AmbiguityAutomotive Industry ExperienceAutonomous Vehicle StackFast Paced EnvironmentSelf Motivated

Required

BA/BS degree in Computer Science, related field or equivalent practical experience

Delivered a company scale and industry leading infrastructure from scratch

Expert level understanding of K8S, Queueing and in memory data structures

10+ years developing backend services (we primarily write C++ and Python)

3+ experience working on complex Machine learning infrastructure

Experience developing and maintaining machine learning production systems deployed to the cloud and on premise

Experience in using Bazel for Complex large scale machine learning infrastructure

Experience with modern python tooling like Ruff, Mypy, Typeguard and pytest

Experience with Supporting MLOps

Experience working in a fast paced environment

Self motivated and ability to deal with ambiguity and evolving requirements

Preferred

Experience of working on Autonomous vehicle stack

Experience in the automotive industry

Experience in utilizing MCP and related tooling to improve infrastructure usage

Strong experience in designing and implementing highly horizontally-scalable architecture

Developing, deploying and monitoring cloud infrastructure is a strong plus

Benefits

Bonus

Equity

Benefits

Company

XPENG

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XPeng is a leading Chinese Smart EV company that designs, develops, manufactures, and markets Smart EVs that appeal to the large and growing base of technology-savvy middle-class consumers.

Founded in 2014

Guangzhou, Guangdong, CHN

10001+ employees