There are at least 37 job offers at the controversy Chinese platform, which for now only has 150 employees.
The Chinese Artificial Intelligence Platform (IA) Deepseek announced today a recruitment campaign with offers exceeding $ 150,000 (144 miles) a year (ie about 12,000 euros per month) after being achieved worldwide success at its release.
The company published at least 37 job offers For various advanced technology positions, the highest paid of which he is a deep learning researcher, with an annual salary of about 1.12 million Yuan (148,000 euros), according to the Jornal de Negóciti Securities Times.
DeepSeek currently has 150 employeesagainst about 1,700 from OpenAi, the main American competitor and the most used AI model to date.
According to the newspaper, the company intends to recruit the best talents finished leaving the Chinese universities, for which also launched an offer of scholarships in the main domains of AI, with daily financial compensation far superior to the usual internship and lunch And even dinner are subsidized.
With staff reinforcement, the technology company seeks to respond to the exponential growth of users since launch and improve and stabilize the service, which has suffered interruptions and technical failures allegedly due to the influx of consultation, even more intense due to the Lunar New Year, period in which much of the Chinese population was on vacation.
Deepseek caused a great agitation in the global IA industry After the launch, a few weeks ago, from its V3 model, which will have taken only two months to develop and cost less than six million dollars (5.7 million euros).
On January 20, he released the latest version, called R1.
Launched in 2023 by the Chinese investment fund High-Flyer Quant, DeepSeek is open source and offers 95% cheaper services than OpenAi’s O1 model.
However, the great attention that generated – was the leader of discharges for Apple devices in the United States – also translated into criticismsince the application issues affected by censorship in China, such as the 1989 Tiananmen or Taiwan status.
According to, DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng said in 2023 that “experience is not that important” when hiring people, valuing creativity more.
“It’s correct to find people with ready experience,” he said. “But if you look at the long run, Experience is not that important. Basic skills, creativity and passion are much more important. From this perspective, there are many appropriate candidates in China, ”said Liang.
However, he stated: “Our main technical positions are filled mainly by newcomers or by people who have graduated for a year or two.”
“By doing something, the experienced people will tell you without hesitation that you should do it in a certain way. But the inexperienced people will explore repeatedly and think seriously About how to do so, and then find a solution that suits the current situation. ”
“Many people have unique experiences, which are very interesting,” he concluded. “And many people are thirsty for the opportunity to do investigation – and that desire greatly exceeds their need for money.”
