Director, AI Platform & Foundation (AI)

Location: Shanghai, China

Company

hirify.global is a global pharmaceutical company operating in a regulated industry.

What you will do

• Own the China AI platform and LLM foundation across architecture, engineering, security, compliance, release management, roadmap, budget, model lifecycle, and platform operations.
• Build and operate cloud environments on Alibaba Cloud, Tencent Cloud, and AWS China, including identity and access management, GPU capacity, model serving, monitoring, automation, and infrastructure as code.
• Lead model, cloud service, and tooling qualification, including security, privacy, China data residency under PIPL, legal review, and generative AI compliance.
• Define engineering standards for model integration, agent runtimes, guardrails, evaluation, MLOps/LLMOps, CI/CD, code review, documentation, and reusable architectures.
• Represent China with Corporate and Global CIO teams, run the AI platform release gate, and align platform production readiness with the D&T go-live gate.
• Lead the platform team and matrixed colleagues and contractors while supporting adoption through sample agents, reusable components, documentation, training, and user community activities.

Requirements

• AI platform engineering and technical product leadership experience, including production model serving or MaaS integration, an AI gateway, guardrails or content moderation, and at least one agent framework.
• Cloud platform engineering experience on Alibaba Cloud, Tencent Cloud, or AWS, including containers and Kubernetes, IAM, GPU capacity, infrastructure as code, and CI/CD; production-quality Python, Linux, and Git skills.
• Experience managing LLM foundations through model selection, pre-production safety, content-compliance and performance evaluation, and lifecycle management.
• Experience operating production services against SLAs, including monitoring, observability, on-call, incident management, and cloud cost control.
• Experience taking new technology through enterprise security, privacy, and architecture review before production use.
• Proven partnership with Corporate or Global CIO organizations and experience managing cloud hosting and software license suppliers.
• Bachelor’s degree or above in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, or a closely related discipline.
• Typically 12+ years of professional experience, including 5+ years building and operating production cloud, data, or AI platforms, plus experience hiring, leading, and developing engineers and contractors. Candidates with an exceptional background may be considered from 10+ years.
• Professional working proficiency in Mandarin and English.

Nice to have

• Working knowledge of PIPL, CAC rules for generative AI services, and MLPS.
• Experience serving open-weight models on GPU infrastructure; domestic accelerator experience is a plus.
• Experience with enterprise single sign-on using SAML/OIDC and cloud IAM integration.
• Experience working in a multinational organization with global platform, security, and governance teams across time zones.
• Pharmaceutical or other regulated-industry experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Operate within AITO and collaborate across AI acceleration, data engineering, enterprise engineering, deployment and operations, business, legal, compliance, cybersecurity, and data protection teams.
• Work with Corporate and Global CIO organizations to reuse global patterns and contribute China-proven capabilities for global reuse.
• Support responsible AI, security, privacy, governance, measurable outcomes, and continuous service improvement.
• hirify.global is an equal opportunity employer and complies with applicable equal employment opportunity legislation in each jurisdiction.