[Skip to main content](#main-content) [OpenNash Jobs](https://jobs.opennash.com/) [Hiring report](/reports/hiring/) · [All HSBC Holdings jobs](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/hsbc-holdings/) · [Search jobs](/search/) HSBC Holdings · Shenzhen, Guangdong, China # Associate Director, Software Engineering (Guardrail Platform AI Safety Track) Shenzhen, Guangdong, China Director Software Engineering Listed on HSBC Holdings’s official careers site. Listed as of October 20, 2026. Check that it is still open and apply there. [Apply on HSBC Holdings’s careers site →](https://portal.careers.hsbc.com/careers/job/563774612000774) [OpenNash Jobs](https://jobs.opennash.com/) / [HSBC Holdings](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/hsbc-holdings/) / Associate Director, Software Engineering (Guardrail Platform AI Safety Track) ## Job description - Design and build the Guardrail Control Plane to manage AI safety policies, detector configurations, evaluation workflows, and enforcement strategies across enterprise AI applications. - Develop scalable and extensible guardrail platform capabilities including policy lifecycle management, detector registry, configuration management, versioning, rollout/rollback, and governance workflow, and runtime decision management. - Design and impllement system architecture and APIs to enable seamless integration between Guardrail Control Plane, Runtime Engine, AI Gateway, RAG, Agent, and other AI platform components. - Build AI platform observability capabilities providing end-to-end visibility across AI workloads, including request lifecycle tracking, safety decisions, model interactions, performances metrics, cost insight and operational analytics. - Design and implement LLM tracing solutions using OpenTelemerty / OpenInference to capture AI execution flows including prompts, models calls, retrieval, embedding, tool calls, guardrail checks, and final responses. - Develop AI safety evaluation and improvement frameworks including datasets management, regression testing pipeline, LLM- as-a-jedge evaluation, human feedback workflows, and production quality monitoring. - Own hands-on engineering delivery including system design, coding, testing, trobleshooting, performance optimization, and production operation of scalable Guardrail Service. - Bachelor's degree or above in Computer Science or related discipline, with 8+ years of professional software engineering experience with strong hands-on experience building production-grade backend platforms and distributed systems. - Proven experience designing and implementing platform systems such as API platforms, workflow platforms, governance platforms, or internal developer platforms. - Strong system design skills with experience in service architecture, domain modeling, API design, configuration-driven systems, version management, and extensibility patterns. - Strong hands-on programming experience with Python (FastAPI) and/or Go, with ability to independently design, implement, and operate backend services. - Experience building configuration management systems, policy engines, workflow systems, rule engines, or platform control planes. - Experience designing observability platforms including distributed tracting, telemetry pipelines, metrics, dashboards, alerting systems and operational analytics. - Hands-on experience with LLM observability concepts including prompt tracing, model tracing, retrieval tracing, tool-call tracing, agent workflow tracing, and AI quality monitoring. - Experience with OpenTelemetry, OpenInference, or similar tracing frameworks. - Experience integrating AI observability platforms such as Arize Phoenix, Langfuse, LangSmith, MLflow, or similar tools. - Experience with Kubernetes/Docker and at least one public cloud platform (AWS/GCP/Azure). Tech Stack Python / Go, FastAPI Kubernetes / Docker Redis / PostgreSQL Kafka / PubSub WebSocket / SSE / gRPC OpenTelemetry GCP / AWS / Azure ## At a glance - Posted by the employer: Not stated - First seen by OpenNash: Oct 13, 2026 - Last checked: Oct 20, 2026 - Listed for: 7 days - Location: Shenzhen, Guangdong, China[Apply on HSBC Holdings’s careers site →](https://portal.careers.hsbc.com/careers/job/563774612000774) ## More jobs at HSBC Holdings ### [Associate Director, Software Engineering (AI Agent Platforms Testing)](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/hsbc-holdings/jobs/e5bae0671375eaf174a3/) Shenzhen, Guangdong, China ### [Associate, Corporate Sales](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/hsbc-holdings/jobs/42b30d60e517a5c7496c/) Shenzhen, Guangdong, China ### [Business Credit Office Manager](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/hsbc-holdings/jobs/d1a877ddbb9c6daa8149/) Shenzhen, Guangdong, China ### [Business Development Officer](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/hsbc-holdings/jobs/96f4db458ca386bb8813/) Shenzhen, Guangdong, China ## Similar jobs at other companies ### [Director, Software Engineering](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/aegon/jobs/7dd73e2b62ea04739e5e/) Aegon ### [Senior Director of Software Engineering](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/jpmorganchase/jobs/ab6b1d796dbc2b1b8839/) JPMorganChase · LONDON, United Kingdom ### [Executive Director, Software Engineering AI Solutions](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/cvs-health/jobs/bb8d84075cfbebe7f5cb/) CVS Health · Woonsocket, RI ### [Director of Software Engineering - Backend ( Java, AWS, AI)](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/jpmorganchase/jobs/c5302bfcdaeddc92e7eb/) JPMorganChase · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India ### [Director Software Engineering Agentic Ai Bengaluru Karnataka India](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/equinix/jobs/17b723bb7aa438485119/) Equinix OpenNash lists jobs from employers’ own careers sites and does not handle applications. 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