Santa Clara, United States

2027 Campus Recruiting Robotics Center Internship Position

XPENG · Santa Clara · United States

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Posted: 8/5/2026 · Last checked: 10/12/2026

Job description

Quoted in full from XPENG's job posting. Gavroche does not edit it.

About Robotics Center:

Technical Highlights

Robotics Foundation Models – Building world foundation models for whole-body intelligence.
Physical Agents – Building self-evolving embodied agents that can perceive, reason, plan, and act robustly in complex real-world environments.
Manipulation – Advancing loco-manipulation and dexterous manipulation, while tackling key challenges in tactile intelligence and VLA scaling.
Locomotion & Whole-Body Control – Advancing human-like locomotion (e.g., RL controllers) and whole-body control.

Career Pathways

Hiring across AI and Machine Learning (e.g., World Models, Behavior Foundation Models, VLA, RL) and Motion Control roles.

200 open roles like this one; at most three per employer shown.

Middle half: 97,500 – 162,000 USD a year; median 131,625 USD.

From 231 adverts by 135 employers that state a salary, annualised.

4% fully remote · 5% hybrid · 91% do not say

Of 85 adverts. An advert that does not state a work mode is counted as not saying, not as on-site.

287 openings over 12 weeks, by the week they were published.

25 open, including roles outside the United States.