All Departments to Expand by at Least 100%! DeepSeek Issues Recruitment Call: Humanity on the Eve of AGI

DeepSeek has issued a recruitment call.

On June 25, leading domestic AI model developer DeepSeek published an announcement widely recruiting talent: DeepSeek's hiring principle is to let new employees directly take on the most core and important tasks. Here, many quickly grow into top-tier industry talents, becoming the backbone driving AGI development.

DeepSeek stated that humanity is currently on the eve of AGI. Joining DeepSeek means experiencing the development of AGI firsthand, sitting in the front row of history, and witnessing the birth of a new epoch. "As technology evolves, we are striving to expand the size of every department by at least 100 percent."

"We never look for geniuses. As long as you have something that shines bright within you, you are the person we are looking for. Welcome to DeepSeek, let us illuminate the unexplored together," DeepSeek wrote in the recruitment post.

According to the recruitment information, DeepSeek is hiring for full-stack development/algorithms, AI core systems R&D, operations, product departments, model data strategy product managers/engineers, deep learning researchers, and functional departments.

In the job posting, DeepSeek affectionately calls itself the "little whale." This is not the first time DeepSeek has publicly recruited. Earlier on June 21, Cui Tianyi, head of the DeepSeek Harness team, stated that "as a newly established department, the DeepSeek Harness group has ambitious goals and heavy workloads, and we are still very short-staffed. I am interviewing every day and posting ads everywhere... There are three positions open: Harness researcher, Harness engineer, and Harness product manager."

Notably, the recruitment poster clearly includes "good Chinese communication skills" as a job requirement, which has been interpreted externally as "not hiring foreigners."

In response, Cui Tianyi said, "Just as American companies require employees who can work in English, DeepSeek requires employees who can work in Chinese. There is no rule against hiring foreigners."

According to him, the number of vacancies is increasing, but the recruitment process is the same as other DeepSeek teams — generally one written test plus three interviews, with him conducting the final interview. The work location is Beijing.

This is also not the first time Cui Tianyi has recruited on platform X. Cui joined DeepSeek in March this year as the head of the Harness team. As early as May 22, Cui had already publicly posted recruitment information, stating that "currently open positions include research engineers and product managers."

Cui said: "We are transforming DeepSeek's cutting-edge model capabilities into leading Agent products. All work beyond the model itself falls under the scope of Harness."

Not long ago, DeepSeek was revealed to have finalized its first round of financing exceeding 50 billion yuan (approximately $7 billion).

According to media reports, founder Liang Wenfeng personally invested approximately 20 billion yuan, making him the largest single investor in this round. Tencent invested about 10 billion yuan; CATL's system invested about 5 billion yuan, including CATL and Puquan Capital; NetEase, JD.com, Monolith, and IDG Capital each invested about 3 billion yuan; ZhenXinGu Investment and Shixiang Technology each invested about 1.5 billion yuan.

It is understood that whether for large companies or VC funds, Liang Wenfeng's most important requirement is: do not poach DeepSeek's people, or advise them to start their own companies.

A reporter from The Paper inquired with DeepSeek insiders and learned that this account is basically accurate.

DeepSeek was once renowned in the industry for not pursuing commercialization. Backed by founder Liang Wenfeng's High-Flyer Capital, DeepSeek has strong technical strength and computing power in quantitative trading and intelligent finance. It was also among the first domestic AI model companies to have a 10,000-GPU cluster. In the view of industry insiders, Liang Wenfeng is a person with AI faith, and his insistence on technological romanticism is well known.

DeepSeek's financing journey has also been interpreted externally as a game between AI idealism and commercialization. The large-scale talent recruitment is undoubtedly DeepSeek's new strategy in the AI talent arms race.