Staff Software Engineer - Scalable AI/ML Infra for Autonomy

Joinhorizon; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 179,000 - 304,000; Full time

Job summary

XPENG is seeking a senior backend engineer to design and implement company-scale distributed systems for the autonomy software evaluation. You will collaborate across XPENG teams to build scalable infrastructure supporting next-generation innovations in AI, ML, and vehicle technologies.

Qualifications include 10+ years in backend development (C++/Python), expert Kubernetes knowledge, and hands-on ML infrastructure experience.

Qualifications

• 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 (C++ and Python).
• 3+ years 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.

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 innovations.
• Demonstrate a can-do attitude and able to thrive at a high pace, always evolving landscape of requirements.
• Collaborate with stakeholders 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.

Skills

Backend development

C++

Python

Distributed systems

ML infrastructure

Kubernetes

Queueing

In-memory data structures

Bazel

Ruff

Mypy

Typeguard

pytest

MLOps tooling

Education

BA/BS in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

Bazel

Ruff

Mypy

Typeguard

pytest

Job description

XPENG is seeking a senior backend engineer to design and implement company-scale distributed systems for the autonomy software evaluation. You will collaborate across XPENG teams to build scalable infrastructure supporting next-generation innovations in AI, ML, and vehicle technologies.

Qualifications include 10+ years in backend development (C++/Python), expert Kubernetes knowledge, and hands-on ML infrastructure experience.