South China Morning Post

China’s tech giants are paying 1 million yuan for a new kind of AI engineer

Chinese technology giants are dangling annual pay packages approaching 1 million yuan (US$149,739) to attract artificial intelligence engineers who can turn AI models into commercial applications. Companies including ByteDance, Tencent Holdings and Alibaba Group Holding are stepping up recruitment and training of the so-called forward-deployed engineers (FDEs), who work directly with customers to develop and integrate AI applications into business operations. Demand for such professionals has...

By South China Morning Post

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China’s tech giants are paying 1 million yuan for a new kind of AI engineer
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