Pinduoduo ramps up investment in AI with job posts for LLM engineers as it eyes greater adoption
- Pinduoduo is offering up to 60,000 yuan (US$8,451) per month for roles including large language model (LLM) developers
- Candidates for LLM referencing engineer role will be responsible for the research and development of the company’s LLM reference engine
Budget shopping platform Pinduoduo, operated by PDD Holdings, is ramping up investment in artificial intelligence (AI) after posting job advertisements for various positions, including algorithm engineers.
Pinduoduo is offering up to 60,000 yuan (US$8,451) per month for roles including large language model (LLM) developers and LLM referencing engineers based in its Shanghai headquarters, according to recruitment posts published by online talent service Boss Zhipin.
Candidates for the LLM referencing engineer role will be responsible for the research, development and optimisation of the company’s LLM reference engine. LLMs are the algorithms that underpin generative AI technology, such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
The referencing engineers will also keep tabs on frontier technology progress in the sector, and support adoption of Pinduoduo’s LLM and AI-generated content across the company’s businesses.
Pinduoduo did not immediately respond to a request for comment on whether it will launch its LLM publicly or how it intends to use it within the business.
Since ChatGPT launched a year ago, Chinese Big Tech firms including search engine giant Baidu and social media and video gaming titan Tencent Holdings have raced to develop proprietary LLMs for use in their own operations and to serve enterprise clients.