On September 8, 2026, the domestic large-model company DeepSeek announced its latest recruitment plan, adding approximately 150 positions for senior engineers. This expansion was highly targeted, with all positions focusing on engineering-related areas, and no positions for AI research were available. The recruitment positions mainly consisted of two categories: server-side development engineers (covering six major areas such as large-model research platforms and Agent framework components) and Agent flexible computing R&D engineers. This move aimed to address the system engineering challenges brought about by the rapid expansion of business scale and the stability requirements after the increase in API service pricing. This was DeepSeek’s second large-scale recruitment this year; unlike its recruitment in June when it expanded across all departments, this time it focused more on the commercial needs in deep areas of engineering capabilities. As model capabilities matured and industry competition shifted from algorithm parameters to API stability and engineering capabilities, DeepSeek continued to raise funds to support its talent expansion and infrastructure construction.
Approximately 150 peopleNumber of recruits increased
30%Proportion of new members in the Notion plan
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On September 7-8, DeepSeek released approximately 150 engineering positions for senior engineers; AI research positions were not available.
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2026-09-07
The DeepSeek Harness team publicly recruited about 150 employees, focusing on server-side development engineers and Agent flexible computing research engineers, targeting both senior engineers and fresh graduates.
On September 8, domestic large-model company DeepSeek announced its latest recruitment plan, adding approximately 150 positions for senior engineers. All these positions are related to server-side development and Agent flexible computing, with no AI research positions available.