ChinaByteDance is advertising engineer pay of up to 975,000 yuan.
That is more than 22 times the 43,377 yuan average disposable income in 2025.
Forward-deployed engineers embed with customers to fit AI models into operations, and postings rose 1,523% in seven months, Maimai data show.
“Most positions do not pay that much,” said George Wang, a senior human resources professional at a Beijing AI company.
Anthropic has pledged $100 million to train 10,000 such engineers by the end of 2027.
How each outlet framed it
- South China Morning Post
- quantifies FDE demand with a 1,523% job-posting surge and sets ByteDance's ~975,000-yuan package against 43,377 yuan average disposable income
Sources: South China Morning Post