# Associate Director, Software Engineering

**Company**: GCIO
**Location**: Xi'an, Shaanxi
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Associate Director, Software Engineering.

Principal responsibilities:

- Lead the evaluation and adoption of AI and ML technologies for CEAIA, with a focus on LLM, agentic AI, RAG, knowledge management, and emerging engineering patterns.

- Drive technical research, proof-of-concept development, and prototype delivery to validate new ideas and accelerate platform evolution.

- Accountable for the end-to-end delivery of the service, ensure the solution is aligned with group direction, NFR and quality expectations are met.

- Partner with development teams to refine solution details, unblock technical issues, and support high-quality implementation across the delivery lifecycle.

- Contribute to the design and improvement of knowledge base, retrieval, memory, orchestration, and search capabilities that enhance CEAIA platform effectiveness.

- Establish strong engineering practices across evaluation, testing, CI/CD, observability, and operational readiness for AI-enabled solutions.

- Work with stakeholders across business, product, architecture, and technology teams to identify opportunities, assess feasibility, and prioritise high-value innovation areas.

- Collaborate across multiple sites and different departments to drive alignment, delivery progress, and technical consistency.

- Provide technical leadership and practical guidance to engineers, helping raise the standard of AI engineering across the team.

Requirements:

- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Science, Engineering, or a related discipline.

- 10+ years of experience in relevant technologies, with strong hands-on delivery experience across AI, ML, data, and enterprise technology solutions.

- Strong stakeholder management skills.

- Deep knowledge of LLM and agent-based solution design, including prompt engineering, Agentic RAG, knowledge retrieval, memory design, and orchestration patterns.

- Experience building or improving knowledge management and knowledge base solutions for structured and unstructured content, including document parsing, indexing, retrieval, and search optimisation.

- Good understanding of machine learning and deep learning techniques, such as model training, fine-tuning, multimodal AI, computer vision, NLP, or speech-related applications.

- Experience working with modern AI and engineering ecosystems, such as open-source AI frameworks, vector databases, APIs, and cloud platforms including AWS, Azure, or GCP.

- Solid software engineering discipline, including testing, CI/CD, performance optimisation, observability, and production support considerations.

- Strong verbal and written English communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across multiple sites, cross-functional teams, and different business and technology departments.

- Proven ability to collaborate with stakeholders across regions and functions, align diverse requirements, and drive delivery in a complex enterprise environment.

## Skills

### Required
- AI
- ML
- LLM
- agentic AI
- RAG
- knowledge management
- Computer Science
- Artificial Intelligence
- Machine Learning
- Data Science
- Engineering

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