ByteDance, Tencent, Alibaba race to hire forward-deployed engineers with ¥1M salaries
pstAsiatech · x · 2026-10-25
Per SCMP, Chinese tech giants including ByteDance, Tencent and Alibaba are scaling up recruitment and training of "forward-deployed engineers" (FDEs), who work directly with customers to build and integrate AI applications into business operations. To win the race to commercialize AI, firms are offering annual salaries as high as 1 million yuan for these roles.
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