Engineering Director/Expert

OKX; Hong Kong; On-site; HKD 3,000,000 - 5,200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive total compensation package

L&D programs and Education subsidy

Team building programs and company/off

Wellness and meal allowances

Comprehensive healthcare schemes for员工

Job summary

OKX is seeking a Senior Director of AI to lead a high-calibre AI team and own product development for autonomous agent systems. You will guide architecture, evaluation, and production deployment while driving impact across core products and business lines.

Ideal candidates bring deep R&D experience in high-performance, low-latency systems, strong leadership skills, and a track record of aligning technical direction with strategic business goals in a fast-paced crypto environment.

Qualifications

• Solid STEM education background.
• Experience in R&D and architecture of high-performance and low-latency systems.
• Familiar with distributed systems and microservice architecture.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead an AI team and manage hiring and performance across the function.
• Deliver autonomous AI Agent products end-to-end from requirements to production operations.
• Establish benchmark-driven evaluation frameworks with quantifiable quality signals for agent systems.
• Design and implement end-to-end Agent Harness infrastructure for stability and reliability.

Skills

Team leadership

AI systems design

Low-latency optimization

Distributed systems

Problem solving

Stakeholder collaboration

Education

STEM degree

Tools

R&D architecture

CI/CD

Performance profiling

Job description

About The Role

OKX is looking for a Senior Director of AI to lead both people and product — building and managing a high‑calibre AI team while staying deeply involved in the design, evaluation, and production deployment of autonomous agent systems. This role calls for a leader who leads by doing: technically grounded, sharp on product judgment, and able to translate both into tangible business outcomes.

What You'll Do

• Team Leadership — Build, manage, and develop a team of AI engineers and researchers; own hiring, growth, and performance across the function
• Agent Product Delivery — Lead end-to-end delivery of autonomous AI Agent products, covering the full lifecycle from requirements and architecture through to production operations
• Eval-Driven Development — Establish benchmark-driven evaluation frameworks that replace manual iteration with quantifiable quality signals across agent systems
• Agent Harness Design — Design and implement end-to-end Agent Harness infrastructure to ensure agent stability and reliability in complex, real-world scenarios
• LLM Orchestration — Orchestrate creative reasoning steps alongside deterministic guardrails, finding the right balance between flexibility and control
• Engineering Workflow Integration — Embed AI Agent capabilities deeply into core products and engineering pipelines, improving both developer productivity and business value
• Cross-functional Alignment — Collaborate with product, engineering, and business teams to ensure technical direction stays tightly aligned with strategic priorities

Who We Are

At OKX, we believe that the future will be reshaped by crypto, and ultimately contribute to every individual's freedom. OKX is a leading crypto exchange, and the developer of OKX Wallet, giving millions access to crypto trading and decentralized crypto applications (dApps). OKX is also a trusted brand by hundreds of large institutions seeking access to crypto markets. We are safe and reliable, backed by our Proof of Reserves. Across our multiple offices globally, we are united by our core principles: We Before Me, Do the Right Thing, and Get Things Done. These shared values drive our culture, shape our processes, and foster a friendly, rewarding, and diverse environment for every OK-er. OKX is part of OKG, a group that brings the value of Blockchain to users around the world, through our leading products OKX, OKX Wallet, OKLink and more.

About The Opportunity

The trading services team provides core order and position management systems, manual, automatic, social, and broker trading products of full spectrum of products (spot, margin, futures, options, perpetures, etc.) for the exchange. It is the backbone of our industry‑leading trading product used by millions of users.

What You'll Be Doing

• Design and implement innovative solutions for our full range of trading products including spot, future, perpetual swap and options
• Build out industry‑leading risk management platform
• Build out automated trading strategies
• Performance, stability optimization for overall trading architecture aiming for low latency, high availability and scalability

What We Look For In You

• Solid STEM (Science/Technology/Engineering/Mathematics) education background
• Experienced in R&D and architecture of high-performance and low-latency systems, with good system optimization skills.
• Familiar with distributed systems and microservice architecture
• Experience in practicing automated testing and continuous integration
• Strong logical thinking and problem-solving skills.
• Good understanding of the crypto trading industry, able to participate in business decision-making and implementation, and able to make good technical planning to support business iteration and innovation efficiently.
• Crypto trading, traditional trading core system, or big/complicated distributed system experience is a plus
• Team management experience is a plus

Perks & Benefits

• Competitive total compensation package
• L&D programs and Education subsidy for employees' growth and development
• Various team building programs and company events
• Wellness and meal allowances
• Comprehensive healthcare schemes for employees and dependants
• More that we love to tell you along the process!

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