# Director, China AI Platform

**Company**: Pfizer
**Location**: Shanghai, Shanghai
**Experience**: executive
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

## Role Summary

The Director owns the China AI platform and the China LLM foundation end to end – architecture, engineering, security and compliance, release management, roadmap and budget.

The platform gives Pfizer China teams governed access to locally available large language models on China cloud providers, with an AI gateway and guardrails, separate innovation and production environments, and model and agent tooling on top.

## Key Accountabilities

- Own the China AI platform end to end: architecture, engineering, security and compliance, release management, product roadmap and budget for licenses and infrastructure.

- Own cloud platform engineering on China cloud providers (Tencent Cloud, Alibaba Cloud, AWS China).

- Own and manage the China LLM foundation: model selection, qualification, evaluation, version and lifecycle management.

- Lead onboarding and qualification of new models, cloud services and tools – security, privacy, legal and China generative AI compliance.

- Set AI platform and engineering standards.

- Act as the single AITO interface with Corporate and Global CIO teams on the AI platform.

- Run the AI platform release gate.

- Run the AI platform as a service.

- Work with Procurement, Legal, Compliance, Cybersecurity and the China Data Protection Office.

- Support builder adoption with China business teams and engineers.

- Lead and develop the AI platform team.

## Required Capabilities & Competencies

### Critical Capabilities & Qualifications

- AI platform engineering and technical product leadership.

- Cloud platform engineering on at least one major cloud.

- LLM foundation management.

- Experience running a production service.

- Experience taking new technology through enterprise security, privacy and architecture review.

- Proven partnership with Corporate or Global CIO organizations.

- Bachelor’s degree or above in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence or a closely related discipline.

- Typically 12+ years of professional experience.

- Professional working proficiency in Mandarin and English.

### Leadership Expectations

- Outcome ownership.

- AI-first and enterprise-minded.

- POD collaboration.

- Precision and learning.

- Hands-on and resilient.

## Key Collaboration

The Director works within AITO under the AITO Head and partners closely with the AIT Acceleration Lead.

## Measures of Success

- A secure, compliant and cost-transparent China AI platform and LLM foundation.

- Every new model, service and tool onboarded through a documented qualification and AI platform release gate.

- Clear alignment with Corporate and Global CIO standards.

## Skills

### Required
- AI platform engineering
- Cloud platform engineering
- LLM foundation management
- Model serving
- AI gateway
- Guardrails
- Content moderation
- Agent framework
- Python
- Linux
- Git
- Kubernetes
- Identity and access management
- GPU capacity
- Infrastructure as code
- CI/CD
- Mandarin

### Nice to have
- Working knowledge of the Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL)
- Experience serving open-weight models on GPU infrastructure
- Enterprise single sign-on (SAML/OIDC) and cloud IAM integration
- Pharmaceutical or other regulated industry experience

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