Baidu

Baidu is a Chinese AI and internet company that operates the dominant Chinese-language search engine and develops large language models, autonomous driving technology, cloud computing and AI chip platforms.

Founded in 2000 and headquartered in Beijing, with an R&D centre in Silicon Valley, Baidu is a Chinese technology company built on a dominant search-engine business and now recognised as a major force in artificial intelligence. Its search platform, the world's largest Chinese-language engine, fields billions of requests every day from users across more than 100 countries and regions - a scale of traffic that continues to underpin the company's research ambitions.

Baidu's technical scope extends well beyond search. The company develops large language models under the Ernie brand, builds its own AI chips, operates a cloud-computing platform serving both consumer and enterprise markets, and is a significant player in autonomous-driving technology. These domains demand work at the frontier of machine learning, systems engineering and large-scale infrastructure, supported by R&D centres in multiple locations.

For engineers and scientists seeking hard problems at scale, Baidu offers an environment where fundamental research meets production systems serving hundreds of millions of users. The breadth of its portfolio - spanning search, LLMs, cloud, hardware and autonomous vehicles - means that deep technical contributions can have outsized, measurable impact.