Senior AI Developer — NLP & large language models

Baidu is hiring a Senior Senior AI Developer — NLP & large language models on the ERNIE & NLP team (Hybrid · Beijing, China). This is a hands-on role in LLM & generative AI—not a generic “AI enthusiast” post.

You will own LLM features, retrieval, agents, and evaluation end to end: problem framing, offline evaluation, safe rollout, and iteration from production signals. Success is measured with clear metrics (quality, latency, cost, or business KPIs)—not slide decks alone.

Baidu is a leading Chinese technology company — search, maps, cloud, and autonomous driving — with frontier NLP and LLM research through ERNIE and PaddlePaddle ecosystems.

Senior AI Developer (Beijing hybrid): ship LLM applications, semantic search, and enterprise copilots on Baidu Cloud with strict latency and compliance requirements in China.

You will work with Mandarin-heavy corpora and multilingual expansion; collaboration with research labs in Haidian is daily.

About Baidu

• Founded in Beijing; operates search, AI cloud, smart devices, and Apollo autonomous driving.
• ERNIE family models and PaddlePaddle framework used across internal and customer products.
• Haidian campus (Shangdi) is a major engineering and research center.

What you will do

• Fine-tune and serve LLMs for search, ads, and cloud customer scenarios.
• Build RAG over licensed corpora with content-safety filters and audit logs.
• Optimize inference on GPU clusters; profile cost per query at billion-scale traffic.
• Partner with product on A/B tests and gradual traffic ramps.

Stack & environment

• Python, PyTorch, PaddlePaddle, NLP, LangChain-style orchestration, Kubernetes.
• Hybrid Beijing Haidian; Mandarin used for team sync and documentation.

What we look for

• 5+ years NLP/LLM engineering; large-scale search or ads a strong plus.
• Mandarin professional proficiency; English for research reading.
• Eligible to work in China.