Principal AI Transformation Architect

Didi Labs; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 255,000 - 351,000; Full time

Job summary

DiDi Autonomous Driving seeks a visionary Staff or Principal AI Transformation Engineer to drive company-wide AI transformation. You will fuse LLM expertise with robust systems architecture and enterprise scaling, embedding with core engineering teams to elevate R&D into an AI-native powerhouse.

The role emphasizes cross-functional influence, advanced AI infra, and leadership across perception, planning, and simulation domains to deliver production-ready AI platforms and accelerated innovation.

Qualifications

• Cross-functional authority to align diverse engineering teams toward an AI-first paradigm.
• Experience leading or heavily contributing to a large-scale AI-native transformation.
• Hands-on deployment, tuning, and optimization with mainstream AI infra tools.
• Deep experience in distributed LLM training/inference and large-scale compute I/O.

Responsibilities

• Spearhead evaluation and deep integration of frontier LLM ecosystems and AI platforms.
• Embed with core autonomous driving teams to translate AI capabilities into production-ready ecosystems.
• Design scalable LLM deployment pipelines, monitoring, and feedback loops; optimize GPU usage and latency.
• Maintain a forward-looking technical roadmap tying external AI innovations to internal systems.

Skills

Cross-Functional Influence

Enterprise AI Transformation

AI Tech Stack

Infra Experience

Tools

PyTorch

Ray

vLLM

Triton Inference Server

Kubernetes

DeepSpeed

Megatron-LM

Job description

DiDi Autonomous Driving seeks a visionary Staff or Principal AI Transformation Engineer to drive company-wide AI transformation. You will fuse LLM expertise with robust systems architecture and enterprise scaling, embedding with core engineering teams to elevate R&D into an AI-native powerhouse.

The role emphasizes cross-functional influence, advanced AI infra, and leadership across perception, planning, and simulation domains to deliver production-ready AI platforms and accelerated innovation.