Engineering Lead

该职位来源于猎聘 The Opportunity: Bringing Quanta to China We're now extending Quanta into China, and it's a real engineering problem, not a copy-paste rollout. China's data-residency requirements mean large parts of the platform have to be independently rebuilt to run in-country: user data, uploaded documents, and query handling all need to stay in China, and some of the AWS and agent infrastructure we rely on elsewhere isn't available there at all. You'd be the engineer who solves that. You'll be the founding member of a new China-based engineering team: architecting and building the in-country version of Quanta yourself, then running it and growing the team around you. It's an unusual combination — a 0-to-1 build on top of an already-proven product, genuinely hard technical constraints to design around, and long-term ownership once it's live.

What You’ll Do

• Architect and build a China-resident version of Quanta's user data platform, including modernizing 10+ year old access model behind a new API layer
• Get Quanta's AI agents running in China without Agent Core, by adapting or forking the agent orchestration layer to a China-compatible alternative
• Rebuild the document upload, storage, and search/vector-index systems to run independently inside China
• Design the data boundary that lets China-based search and agents operate while keeping IDC's proprietary research and verbatim user queries appropriately separated from crossing in or out of the country
• Recruit, hire, and lead the long-term China engineering team, starting as its first member
• Own the system on an ongoing basis after launch — this is a long-term build-and-run role, not a one-time migration handoff

What You Bring

• 8+ years of full-stack or backend software engineering experience, including ownership of
• architecture decisions under real infrastructure and regulatory constraints
• Direct experience building or operating systems inside China's infrastructure/data-residency environment
• Experience with API design and migrating legacy systems (databases, access models) onto modern service layers
• Working knowledge of search/vector-index systems and LLM agent orchestration frameworks
• Experience leading or mentoring engineers — you'll be building a team, not joining one
• Fluency in Mandarin and English
• Comfort operating with real autonomy and ambiguity, including constraints that may still shift as the project proceeds
• Preferred Qualifications
• Experience with China-specific cloud providers (Alibaba Cloud, Tencent Cloud, Huawei Cloud) as AWS alternatives
• Prior 0-to-1 or greenfield build experience, ideally in a regulated or data-sovereignty-constrained market
• Experience working on a distributed team across US/EU/China time zones
• Familiarity with MCP (Model Context Protocol), as our broader agent orchestrator migration is moving that direction