AI and machine learning jobs in China: engineering, research and LLM roles
7,240 open AI and machine learning roles at 368 companies in China: AI engineering (4,267), AI research and safety (392), LLM and generative AI (1,691), AI agents (385), ML infrastructure and MLOps (128), AI product (43), Computer vision, speech and multimodal (263), AI chips, data centers and edge AI (36). None of them states a citizenship or security-check demand. 4 mention relocation support.
tencent.com • HQ: Shenzhen, China • Esports • Payment Processing & Gateways • Cloud Platforms (IaaS & PaaS) • Game Development • Messaging Apps • Consumer Internet Groups • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 1998 • HKEX: 00700 • Trust B • Hiring 1466, 105 new
HQ: Shenzhen, China • Esports • Payment Processing & Gateways • Cloud Platforms (IaaS & PaaS) • Game Development • Messaging Apps • Consumer Internet Groups • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 1998 • HKEX: 00700 • Trust B • Hiring 1466, 105 new
Tencent is a Chinese technology conglomerate founded in Shenzhen in 1998 and one of the largest internet companies in the world by revenue. Its WeChat super-app combines messaging, social feeds, payments, mini-programs and official accounts into the default digital layer of Chinese daily life, with well over a billion monthly users. The group is also the biggest video game company on the planet through domestic publishing and stakes in Riot, Supercell and Epic Games, and runs Tencent Cloud, Tencent Music, a large fintech business and the Hunyuan family of foundation models.
alibaba.com • HQ: Hangzhou, China • Logistics • E-commerce Platforms • Foundation Models • Cloud Platforms (IaaS & PaaS) • Marketplaces • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 1999 • Trust A • Hiring 2225, 125 new
HQ: Hangzhou, China • Logistics • E-commerce Platforms • Foundation Models • Cloud Platforms (IaaS & PaaS) • Marketplaces • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 1999 • Trust A • Hiring 2225, 125 new
Alibaba Group is a Chinese technology conglomerate founded in Hangzhou in 1999 by Jack Ma and seventeen colleagues, built around commerce and cloud computing. Its domestic marketplaces Taobao and Tmall handle a large share of Chinese retail, while Alibaba.com, AliExpress, Lazada and Trendyol serve cross-border and international buyers, supported by the Cainiao logistics network. Alibaba Cloud is the largest public cloud provider in Asia and develops the open-weight Qwen model family, which has become one of the most downloaded foundation model series in the world.
mi.com • HQ: Beijing, China • Televisions • Automotive Manufacturing • Smart Home Devices • Smartphones • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2010 • Trust C • Hiring 1085, 42 new
HQ: Beijing, China • Televisions • Automotive Manufacturing • Smart Home Devices • Smartphones • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2010 • Trust C • Hiring 1085, 42 new
Xiaomi is a Chinese consumer electronics company founded in Beijing in 2010 by Lei Jun and seven co-founders, and one of the three largest smartphone makers in the world. It sells Xiaomi and Redmi handsets alongside a very broad connected-device ecosystem covering televisions, wearables, scooters, appliances and home sensors, built partly through investments in dozens of partner manufacturers. Since 2021 the company has added electric vehicles, launching the SU7 saloon and YU7 sport utility to unexpectedly strong demand, and it ties the whole portfolio together with its HyperOS operating system.
minimax.io • HQ: Shanghai, China • Generative Audio & Music • Conversational AI • LLM & Generative AI • Foundation Models • Generative Video • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2021 • Trust B • Hiring 147, 7 new
HQ: Shanghai, China • Generative Audio & Music • Conversational AI • LLM & Generative AI • Foundation Models • Generative Video • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2021 • Trust B • Hiring 147, 7 new
MiniMax is a Chinese artificial intelligence company founded in Shanghai in 2021 by former SenseTime researchers, and one of the country's most commercially aggressive model developers. It builds text, speech, image and video foundation models in house and pushes them straight into consumer products, including the Hailuo video generator and the Talkie and Xingye companion applications that have found large audiences inside and outside China. The company also sells API access to enterprises, released the open-weight M-series reasoning models, and listed in Hong Kong in 2025.
amd.com • HQ: Santa Clara, United States • Computer Components • AI Chips & Accelerators • Processors, MCUs & AI Chips • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 1969 • Trust B • Hiring 1056, 98 new
HQ: Santa Clara, United States • Computer Components • AI Chips & Accelerators • Processors, MCUs & AI Chips • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 1969 • Trust B • Hiring 1056, 98 new
AMD is an American semiconductor company founded in 1969 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, that designs processors, graphics chips and adaptive computing hardware without owning fabrication plants. Its Ryzen and Threadripper processors and Radeon graphics serve consumers and creators, EPYC server chips have taken a large share of the data centre market from Intel, and the Instinct accelerators compete for AI training and inference workloads. The 2022 acquisition of Xilinx added field-programmable gate arrays and adaptive systems on chip, and the company also supplies the custom silicon inside the PlayStation and Xbox consoles.
konghq.com • HQ: San Francisco, United States • Developer Tools • Integration & API Management • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2009 • Trust A • Hiring 86, 9 new
HQ: San Francisco, United States • Developer Tools • Integration & API Management • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2009 • Trust A • Hiring 86, 9 new
Kong builds API connectivity software, starting with the widely deployed open-source Kong Gateway and extending into a service mesh, an ingress controller and an AI gateway that governs traffic to language models. Its platform handles authentication, rate limiting, observability and routing for the interfaces that connect internal services, partners and customers across cloud and on-premise environments. The company began life as the API marketplace Mashape before pivoting to infrastructure, and now sells to large enterprises worldwide.
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