Senior Platform Engineer - AI & Automation

XPENG; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 175,000 - 296,000; Full time

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Job summary

XPENG seeks a Senior Software Engineer for Agentic Platforms to design and operate production-grade platform services. You will automate workflows, evolve the agentic layer, and shape a semantic data model powering agent decisions. Collaborate with customers on onboarding, gather requirements, and drive roadmap priorities.

You will apply system design fundamentals, build reliable services, and advance observability and safety in AI-enabled workflows. Strong cross-team communication is essential.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field.
• 5+ years building and operating production distributed systems.
• Proficiency in Python and TypeScript; solid grasp of databases, message queues, caching, and API design.
• Hands-on experience with AI coding tooling and LLM APIs.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate production-grade platform services and infrastructure with strong reliability, observability, and performance.
• Identify manual, repetitive engineering workflows and eliminate them through self-service automation on the platform.
• Build and evolve the agentic layer: agent lifecycle, tool/MCP integrations, sandboxed execution, multi-agent workflows.
• Design the semantic data layer that grounds agents: model our systems, workflows, and decision data as connected objects and tools that agents can query and act on.
• Build safe action execution paths: connectors to internal and operational systems, staged propose–validate–approve–commit flows, with granular access control and end-to-end decision lineage/audit.
• Own system design for new platform capabilities end to end, from requirements through rollout and operations.
• Work directly with customers: lead technical onboarding, gather requirements, debug production issues, and turn field feedback into roadmap priorities.
• Establish best practices for agent evaluation, observability, and safety guardrails.

Skills

Python

TypeScript

Distributed systems

APIs

Automation

LLM tooling

Agent frameworks

Cross-team communication

Education

Master's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

MCP servers

Databases

Message queues

Job description

XPENG seeks a Senior Software Engineer for Agentic Platforms to design and operate production-grade platform services. You will automate workflows, evolve the agentic layer, and shape a semantic data model powering agent decisions. Collaborate with customers on onboarding, gather requirements, and drive roadmap priorities.

You will apply system design fundamentals, build reliable services, and advance observability and safety in AI-enabled workflows. Strong cross-team communication is essential.