AI Technical Lead
NIO USA, INC · Posted Jun 18, 2026
- San Jose, California, United States
- Full-time
- $192K–$250K per year
- 8+ years
Lead the architectural design and strategic vision for hybrid inference systems, manage a team of AI engineers, and drive the overarching technical roadmap for AI systems.
Compensation
The US base salary range for this full-time position is $192,100.00 - $249,600.00.
Responsibilities
- Architect the Hybrid AI Vision: Lead the architectural design and strategic vision for hybrid inference systems, dynamically distributing Large Language Model (LLM) and Vision-Language Model (VLM) workloads across edge computing environments and cloud infrastructure.
- Team Leadership & Innovation: Lead, mentor, and inspire a team of specialized engineers working across distributed systems orchestration, inference optimization, and AI compiler engineering.
- Design Dynamic Orchestration & Resilience: Oversee the architecture of high-availability orchestration engines that intelligently route inference tasks.
- Guide the team in developing cascading inference mechanisms, dynamic model fallback strategies, and robust telemetry to ensure continuous, steady-state inference under varying connectivity constraints.
Requirements
- Ph.D. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, or a related field
- Master’s degree with 12+ years of experience
- Nice to have: Privacy-preserving AI techniques
- Nice to have: Federated Learning
- Nice to have: Differential Privacy