# Sr/Staff AI Infrastructure Engineer

Hiring organization: [NIO](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/nio)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/940dc5a6-c345-4bf0-8613-b0219cf78ad5

Listed on NIO's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Employment type: full time
- Seniority: Senior
- Location: San Jose, CA
- Salary: 163500 – 212400 USD per year

## Summary

NIO seeks an AI infrastructure engineer to architect foundational AI systems for autonomous vehicle platforms, designing solutions for model training and inference optimization across hardware domains. This role suits experienced systems engineers comfortable with cloud infrastructure, ML frameworks, and embedded optimization who want to work on cutting-edge autonomous driving technology.

_Our summary, not NIO's wording._

## Skills named

Amazon Web Services (AWS), C++, ComfyUI, GitHub, GitLab, Jenkins, Microsoft Azure, Python, PyTorch, TensorFlow

## Required

- 3+ years AI model training or inference optimization and deployment
- Knowledge of modern AI architectures like Transformer
- Built at least one public AI project or application
- Cloud infrastructure experience (Azure or AWS)
- CI/CD pipeline experience (Gitlab, GitHub, or Jenkins)
- 3+ years ML infrastructure work (PyTorch or TensorFlow)
- 7+ years building complex software systems
- Proficient in C/C++ and Python
- Bachelor's or Master's in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent
- Strong communication and technical writing skills

## Nice to have

- Master's degree plus 3 years industry experience or Ph.D. in computer science or AI
- ComfyUI extension or SDXL native app development
- Hardware acceleration knowledge (Stable Diffusion, SAM, Mistral, Groq)
- LLM optimization for resource-constrained edge devices
- Performance tuning and inference optimization for deep learning on hardware
- Deep knowledge of CPU, GPU, and NPU architectures
- Embedded or mobile operating system understanding
- Microkernel architecture, Linux kernel, hypervisor, or middleware experience

Apply on NIO's site: https://nio.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/NIO_Careers/job/San-Jose-US/Sr-Staff-AI-Infrastructure-Engineer_R-000116