--- title: 'Forward Deployed Engineer Intern at Baidu USA' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/forward-deployed-engineer-intern-baidu-usa-mountain-view-3pxspkx36c1t' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-12' --- # Forward Deployed Engineer Intern at Baidu USA - **Company:** Baidu USA - **Location:** Mountain View, CA - **Posted:** 2026-09-11 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-12 - **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/baidu/jobs/8197142 ## Job description Job Title: Forward Deployed Engineer Intern Location: Mountain View, CA Employment Type: Full-time Internship Internship Duration: 3 months, with possibility to extend Work Arrangement: On-site, Monday - Friday ## About the Role Join the team at Baidu USA and help developers and companies build AI applications powered by real-time web search. We’re looking for a Forward Deployed Engineer Intern who can bridge the gap between our technology and the customers building with it. You’ll work directly with customers to understand their use cases, design solutions, build prototypes, troubleshoot integrations, and help move applications from early testing to production. This is a full-time, on-site internship based in the Bay Area. The initial internship period is 3 months, with the possibility to extend based on performance and business needs. This is a highly hands-on engineering role. You should be comfortable writing code, working with APIs, debugging technical issues, and communicating directly with customers. You’ll also work closely with our Product, Engineering, and Business teams to bring customer feedback back into the product. ## What You’ll Do - Work directly with customers to understand their technical requirements, architecture, and use cases. - Help customers integrate Querit Search API into AI agents, RAG systems, research tools, and other AI applications. - Build demos, prototypes, proof-of-concepts, and reference implementations for customer use cases. - Debug technical issues across API integrations and help customers move from evaluation to production. - Advise customers on search quality, latency, retrieval strategies, and integration best practices. - Partner with Product and Engineering to identify recurring customer needs, technical blockers, and opportunities to improve the product. - Create reusable sample code, integration guides, demos, and technical documentation. - Work closely with the business team during technical evaluations, customer onboarding, and deployment. - Communicate with developers, founders, and engineering teams during customer-facing technical discussions. ## What We’re Looking For - Currently pursuing or recently completed a degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field. - Strong programming skills in Python, TypeScript/JavaScript, or a similar language. - Experience working with REST APIs, backend systems, or web applications. - Familiarity with modern AI application stacks, including LLMs, RAG, agents, or retrieval systems. - Strong problem-solving skills and ability to debug technical issues independently. - Comfortable communicating directly with customers and explaining technical concepts clearly. - Strong communication skills and a proactive, ownership-driven working style. - Able to work full-time and on-site from our Bay Area office for at least 3 months. ## Nice to Have - Previous software engineering, AI, or technical internship experience. - Experience building AI agents, RAG pipelines, search, or retrieval systems. - Familiarity with frameworks such as LangChain, LlamaIndex, LangGraph, OpenAI SDKs, or similar tools. - Experience with developer tools, APIs, AI infrastructure, or enterprise software. - Experience building and shipping side projects, hackathon projects, or production applications. ## About Baidu USA ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Baidu USA is the Silicon Valley R&D center of Baidu, China’s largest search engine, focused on cutting-edge AI research, autonomous driving, and global business development. - **Entity Type**: Public subsidiary of Baidu, Inc. (NASDAQ: BIDU) - **Headquarters**: Mountain View, California, USA (with additional offices in Bellevue, WA and Sunnyvale, CA) - **Founded**: 2014 - **Founders**: Baidu was founded by Robin Li and Eric Xu; Baidu USA operates as a wholly owned subsidiary. ## Core Business - **Primary Industries**: Artificial intelligence, autonomous driving, cloud computing, digital advertising, and hardware design (CPU/GPU/SoC). - **Target Customers**: B2B (advertisers, enterprise AI solutions), B2C (through Baidu’s consumer products), and internal R&D for Baidu’s global ecosystem. - **Mission**: “To make a complicated world simpler through technology.” ## Products & Services - **Baidu Research US**: Conducts fundamental AI research in deep learning, computer vision, speech recognition, and NLP. - **Intelligent Driving Group (IDG) US**: Develops Apollo autonomous driving platform and related hardware/software. - **Baidu Global Business Unit**: Manages **MediaGo** (AI-powered advertising platform for global app advertisers) and other international ad sales. - **Xingyun US**: Silicon Valley hardware design center focused on CPU/GPU/SoC architecture for AI and autonomous driving. - **Baidu AI Cloud**: Cloud services with AI capabilities (noted as a category, though US-specific offerings may be limited). ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Baidu, Inc. market cap ~$30–40 billion (as of mid-2025); Baidu USA is a subsidiary with no separate public valuation. - **Key Metric**: Headcount of 77 employees (+2.1% YoY); active job postings increased 180% YoY (14 current openings). - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Baidu, Inc. (parent); partnerships with global advertisers, automotive OEMs, and hardware vendors. - **Growth Signals**: Rapid expansion in hardware engineering roles (CPU/GPU/SoC), 40% quarterly increase in job postings, new office in Bellevue, WA, and growing global advertising business (MediaGo). ## Competitive Advantages - Access to Baidu’s massive data, compute resources, and decades of AI expertise—combined with the agility of a small Silicon Valley team. - Strong talent pipeline from top universities (Stanford, UC Santa Barbara) and alumni network at Google, Microsoft, NVIDIA, and ByteDance. - Unique position bridging US innovation with Baidu’s vast Chinese market and ecosystem. ## Strategic Focus - **AI Hardware**: Building custom CPU/GPU/SoC designs for machine learning and autonomous driving. - **Autonomous Driving**: Advancing Apollo platform through US-based R&D and partnerships. - **Global Advertising**: Scaling MediaGo to capture international app advertiser spend. - **Talent Acquisition**: Aggressively hiring hardware architects, AI researchers, and business development managers to expand US footprint. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: “Nimbleness of a startup” with resources of a global tech giant; elite researchers and engineers work on “change-the-world” AI projects. - **Work Environment**: Hybrid/office presence across three US locations (Mountain View, Sunnyvale, Bellevue). Specific remote policy not disclosed. - **Impact**: Work on AI systems deployed to hundreds of millions of users (Baidu’s core products) and cutting-edge hardware that powers next-gen AI. - **Notable Perks**: Not explicitly listed, but typical for a global R&D center includes competitive compensation, equity (via Baidu), and exposure to cross-border technology development. ## Sources 1. [usa.baidu.com](https://usa.baidu.com/) 2. [usa.baidu.com/about](https://usa.baidu.com/about) 3. [job-boards.greenhouse.io/baidu](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/baidu) 4. 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