Where Ma is the former English teacher and charismatic chairman and chief executive of Alibaba, Li is the soft-spoken, media shy former engineer leading Baidu.
The Media Systems team is looking for a software quality engineer with a strong technical background to test still, video and audio capture and playback frameworks.
Also still employed, at least according to his LinkedIn page, is Gray Powell, the Apple engineer who lost possession of an iPhone 4 prototype, yielding Gizmodo and Gawker Media their biggest traffic bonanza ever.