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- DeepSeek is hiring AI and Agent Harness product managers for its product department in Beijing and Hangzhou
DeepSeek's careers site lists an AI Product Manager opening in its product department, based in Beijing and Hangzhou, open to interns and full-time hires, with two tracks. The AI product track sets product strategy for DeepSeek Chat on web, app and the open platform. The Agent Harness track plans the DeepSeek Harness roadmap and defines metrics for whether the agent truly helps more people more deeply in more scenarios; candidates should be heavy agent users who have deeply used products such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and Manus. A separate Agent Harness team listing also recruits product designers and project managers, as interns or full-time.
- ByteDance Seed sets up an Alignment & Preparedness department focused on AI safety and is hiring researchers
ByteDance's Seed team said it recently set up an Alignment & Preparedness department and is recruiting about 10 researchers in Beijing, Shanghai and San Jose. Caixin reports the unit is led by Yan Lin and reports to Seed head Wu Yonghui; that leadership detail comes from Caixin, not ByteDance.
- Judge orders OpenAI to give Apple hiring records on former Apple employees in trade secrets case, per TechCrunch
TechCrunch reports that US District Judge Edward Davila granted Apple expedited access to OpenAI's interview materials for former Apple employees who applied to its consumer hardware and robotics groups, in the trade secrets lawsuit Apple filed in July. Apple can also see private LINE messages between OpenAI employees Chang Liu and Alyssa Peng and depose them and chief hardware officer Tang Yew Tan, all former Apple employees. OpenAI has five days to hand over materials already collected and 14 days for the rest. The judge denied Apple's request for expedited access to OpenAI research in areas such as metal finishes and power management.
- Elon Musk recruits for TeslaSI to work on generalized real-world superintelligence
Elon Musk posted a hiring call for TeslaSI, saying the team is hiring people interested in solving generalized real-world superintelligence.
- Infron is hiring for agents, evals, post-training and inference roles
Infron said it is hiring for technical roles in agents, evals, post-training, inference optimization and scheduling, plus commercial roles in technical sales and AI supply partnerships.