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AI Technical Lead

NIO

San Jose, CA · full time · Senior

$192,100 – $249,600

Listed on NIO’s own careers site. You apply with them directly — we never stand between you and the employer.

What this role is

NIO is seeking a technical leader to architect and oversee hybrid AI inference systems that intelligently distribute large language model workloads between edge and cloud infrastructure for autonomous vehicles. This role suits someone with deep expertise in distributed ML systems, model optimization, or AI compiler engineering who can lead a specialized team and drive complex technical decisions across multiple domains.

Our summary, not NIO’s wording. The full posting is on their site.

Skills this role names

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What they ask for

Required

  • Ph.D. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or AI (or Master's with 12+ years experience)
  • 8+ years industry experience (or 12+ with Master's)
  • Proven experience leading technical teams or driving architectural roadmaps
  • Deep expertise in at least one or two of: distributed systems and hybrid inference, algorithmic and inference optimization, or advanced systems and compiler engineering
  • End-to-end systems leadership across full-stack AI systems engineering

Nice to have

  • Publications at NeurIPS, ICML, MLSys or similar venues
  • Active contributions to open-source ML infrastructure projects like vLLM, ONNX Runtime, Apache TVM, or llama.cpp
  • Deep understanding of privacy-preserving techniques like federated learning and differential privacy

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