Senior Staff AI Engineer

<div data-page-id="TlgzdweAoorcvgxnmU8ci6FKnye" data-lark-html-role="root" data-docx-has-block-data="false"> <div class="ace-line ace-line old-record-id-TdaCdnylEo4J28xTrXvc4m9NnVc"><strong>XPENG</strong> 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&amp;D in AI, machine learning, and smart connectivity.</div> <div class="ace-line ace-line old-record-id-UUjQdf7dhoill9x5b9xcHGTJnDJ">&nbsp;</div> <div class="ace-line ace-line old-record-id-UUjQdf7dhoill9x5b9xcHGTJnDJ">We are looking for a hands-on Senior Staff AI Engineer to build and scale production-grade AI systems that drive measurable impact across internal teams. This role owns the end-to-end delivery of applied AI solutions—partnering with product, engineering, and cross-functional teams across the organization to identify high-value use cases, and translating them into scalable systems using LLMs, retrieval, and agentic workflows. You will also define architecture and reusable patterns to enable AI adoption broadly, while setting a high bar for reliability, evaluation, and performance.</div> <div class="ace-line ace-line old-record-id-Z1yxdTP5QobbzHxMDfucLGn3nUb">&nbsp;</div> <div class="ace-line ace-line old-record-id-TThCdPelNoxVtZxYvv0cGIchnfg"><strong>Job Responsibilities:</strong></div> <ul class="list-bullet1"> <li class="ace-line ace-line old-record-id-Xkzzdi4ghok3wFxrAkbcVDA1ntg" data-list="bullet"> <div>Lead the technical design and hands-on development of prioritized AI applications, services, and platforms leveraging state-of-the-art LLM app stacks, retrieval-augmented generation, evaluation frameworks, and scalable serving.</div> </li> <li class="ace-line ace-line old-record-id-F8PVdCVlfoSnuOx6YoMccveLnKg" data-list="bullet"> <div>Define long-term architecture and engineering standards for Applied AI systems to maximize reuse, reliability, and impact across multiple product areas.</div> </li> <li class="ace-line ace-line old-record-id-QDO6dtRapoJfPSxdhyycn54Jnhb" data-list="bullet"> <div>Partner with business sponsors to translate high-value opportunities into roadmaps and shipped products with clear success metrics and measurable outcomes.</div> </li> <li class="ace-line ace-line old-record-id-EkPodYJoSoKi5wxKrgkc0PdwnYd" data-list="bullet"> <div>Build a holistic view of AI investments by collaborating with adjacent engineering groups implementing AI in their domains, aligning patterns, reusing components, and avoiding duplication.</div> </li> <li class="ace-line ace-line old-record-id-BMVidRtwiomq0ux39uacFn0znCg" data-list="bullet"> <div>Drive continuous improvement in AI methodologies and best practices; evaluate emerging capabilities and land them as secure, production-grade systems.</div> </li> <li class="ace-line ace-line old-record-id-TbRdd2g6zojiwIxWnk2cG4xmnCf" data-list="bullet"> <div>Collaborate with stakeholders to embed robust governance, privacy, security, safety, and reporting practices across the AI lifecycle.</div> </li> <li class="ace-line ace-line old-record-id-QEoYdY8tWoNEQfxol95c0PiYn1e" data-list="bullet"> <div>Champion AI literacy, enablement, and adoption through demos, guidance, and technical leadership across the organization.</div> </li> <li class="ace-line ace-line old-record-id-IHaUdqn3PolJvZxN0G9cgshyn4g" data-list="bullet"> <div>Establish rigorous evaluation, guardrails, and monitoring practices; instrument offline and online metrics to ensure quality, safety, and SLOs.</div> </li> </ul> <div class="ace-line ace-line old-record-id-V12cdV0PJoNxLTxcHpNcQKnknBg">&nbsp;</div> <div class="ace-line ace-line old-record-id-GGhKdbEssoSGsfxXXrpcW8CVnvf"><strong>Minimum Skill Requirements:</strong></div> <ul class="list-bullet1"> <li class="ace-line ace-line old-record-id-DAfLdHrC1oModxxUepicouqfnHd" data-list="bullet"> <div>BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience.</div> </li> <li class="ace-line ace-line old-record-id-E2Z3dX151o9BMFxA5mgclm0inbb" data-list="bullet"> <div>10+ years of software engineering experience, with a proven track record delivering complex, production-grade systems.</div> </li> <li class="ace-line ace-line old-record-id-I4bfdjOL4obUOgxNH6ucz3twnib" data-list="bullet"> <div>Deep technical expertise in AI/ML, with hands-on experience building and deploying systems using language models, retrieval/grounding (RAG), embeddings/vector search, and evaluation frameworks.</div> </li> <li class="ace-line ace-line old-record-id-CLOYdBYfCoaKEuxVREQc01bCnec" data-list="bullet"> <div>Hands-on experience building and scaling agentic AI systems in production environments.</div> </li> <li class="ace-line ace-line old-record-id-BWHEdcm9IoP0RJxMhObcVtQpnLd" data-list="bullet"> <div>Strong experience designing and implementing evaluation systems, including LLM-as-Judge frameworks, metric design, synthetic data generation, and agent benchmarking pipelines.</div> </li> <li class="ace-line ace-line old-record-id-Qtkcdr8E7ogwnGx6QOlczqfrnHh" data-list="bullet"> <div>Proven ability to establish feedback loops from production systems into evaluation and model improvement workflows.</div> </li> <li class="ace-line ace-line old-record-id-SJhcdfQAPo5FmixVDy4csrfRnNf" data-list="bullet"> <div>Expertise in AI/LLM observability and tracing, including instrumentation of systems and analysis of trace data for performance, latency, and correctness (e.g., OpenTelemetry-based tools such as LangFuse or equivalent).</div> </li> <li class="ace-line ace-line old-record-id-M2PldKG6soKL2exZb8Lcx8qtnvb" data-list="bullet"> <div>Experience architecting and deploying enterprise-scale AI systems or subsystems, with the ability to define technical direction, architecture, and reusable platform components across teams.</div> </li> <li class="ace-line ace-line old-record-id-OpYldbzHRo8vM0xo90wcBkl8nXb" data-list="bullet"> <div><strong>Deep expertise in at least one of the following areas: </strong></div> <ul class="list-bullet2"> <li class="ace-line ace-line old-record-id-KRIXdNrQUopaHsx0RiOclVPynRr" data-list="bullet"> <div><strong>Agent memory systems (context management, long-term persistence, </strong><strong>retrieval</strong><strong> </strong><strong>optimization</strong><strong>). </strong></div> </li> <li class="ace-line ace-line old-record-id-T5KUdwShooRT3RxjPdqcppExnxh" data-list="bullet"> <div><strong>AI gateways / tool orchestration layers (e.g., </strong><strong>MCP</strong><strong>, service integration, authorization, tool discovery). </strong></div> </li> <li class="ace-line ace-line old-record-id-HtjNdtRmVoFg58x5Jvoc2PjBnWc" data-list="bullet"> <div><strong>Agentic workflows and orchestration (multi-step planning, tool calling, error recovery, concurrency). </strong></div> </li> </ul> </li> <li class="ace-line ace-line old-record-id-YnNYdIA35o2JCzxtArJcKuRQnRf" data-list="bullet"> <div>Demonstrated ability to translate ambiguous problems into scalable AI systems with measurable impact.</div> </li> <li class="ace-line ace-line old-record-id-IUOVdDVqjognm4xmoKccPjzcnqc" data-list="bullet"> <div>Experience driving engineering standards, improving system reliability, observability, and performance (latency, throughput, cost).</div> </li> <li class="ace-line ace-line old-record-id-GE6Vd5O1YoU1lVxGMWYcEyK2nPh" data-list="bullet"> <div>Strong familiarity with security, privacy, compliance, safety, and auditability in enterprise AI systems.</div> </li> <li class="ace-line ace-line old-record-id-D0eedjUkTof4eSxRSeHct6Rjnfq" data-list="bullet"> <div>Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills; able to influence and align across engineering, product, and other internal teams.</div> </li> <li class="ace-line ace-line old-record-id-HHs3dZiVXoLiLRxNGmncqCkGnch" data-list="bullet"> <div>Proven ability to learn and apply new technologies quickly through hands-on development.</div> </li> </ul> <div class="ace-line ace-line old-record-id-CwX4dwZdKo2lNExAHD5cGMw8nwd">&nbsp;</div> <div class="ace-line ace-line old-record-id-U4x6dYBTYo0Wu2xJ6hGcwjcHnwh"><strong>Preferred Skill Requirements:</strong></div> <ul class="list-bullet1"> <li class="ace-line ace-line old-record-id-FK6BdQPGToEvcvx9Uo9cSAcanjf" data-list="bullet"> <div>Experience building custom evaluation harnesses or contributing to open-source harness frameworks.</div> </li> <li class="ace-line ace-line old-record-id-YxZUdP1oDoovCVxhdxCcXsnWnhd" data-list="bullet"> <div>Contributions to widely used third-party benchmarks or evaluation suites.</div> </li> <li class="ace-line ace-line old-record-id-XR6tdkfGboOXMMxThptcBKdMnac" data-list="bullet"> <div>Hands-on experience developing and evaluating coding agents or code-generation systems.</div> </li> <li class="ace-line ace-line old-record-id-A06cdrSQZoJ8UqxAXeAcqJl4nZc" data-list="bullet"> <div>Experience working with and deploying open-source language models.</div> </li> </ul> <div class="ace-line ace-line old-record-id-UPSidDLnWo4R5PxUrU8cSvCsnWf">&nbsp;</div> <div class="ace-line ace-line old-record-id-EDAydjtBYoWqDDx5OwhcBFoSnJd"><strong>What do we provide:</strong></div> <ul class="list-bullet1"> <li class="ace-line ace-line old-record-id-FGY8dXqBZoRODQx85KzcZABknXd" data-list="bullet"> <div>A fun, supportive and engaging environment.</div> </li> <li class="ace-line ace-line old-record-id-Q16Vd0C0SoMgebxvzOhcgin0nSd" data-list="bullet"> <div>Opportunity to make significant impact on transportation revolution by the means of advancing autonomous driving.</div> </li> <li class="ace-line ace-line old-record-id-IqwgdXdr2ofu2Mx126zc3d8wnyw" data-list="bullet"> <div>Opportunity to work on cutting edge technologies with the top talent in the field.</div> </li> <li class="ace-line ace-line old-record-id-UyVGddsrjoXonBxTUWBcLSqVnXb" data-list="bullet"> <div>Competitive compensation package.</div> </li> <li class="ace-line ace-line old-record-id-LtPXdnEqxoywLHxic65cDaK6nem" data-list="bullet"> <div>Snacks, lunches and fun activities.</div> </li> </ul> <div class="ace-line ace-line old-record-id-IMludyKwbo8kkax8CCTclEaWncf">&nbsp;</div> <div class="ace-line ace-line old-record-id-J8VMdiwBeo2zqQxDRMecnRQLnLb">The base salary range for this full-time position is $244,140 - $413,160, in addition to bonus, equity and benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.</div> <div class="ace-line ace-line old-record-id-OjmsdgdqJoF2Ffx2WmucgDRHnlf">&nbsp;</div> <div class="ace-line ace-line old-record-id-YGF1dEgzXoSVvkxCzmictA0Yn50">We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. It is our policy to provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified persons without regard to race, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status or marital status or any other prescribed category set forth in federal or state regulations.</div> </div>