DeepSeek job ads call for interns to label medical data to improve AI use in hospitals
Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) start-up DeepSeek, which has remained mute over a release date for its R2 reasoning model, has begun recruiting interns to label medical data to improve the use of AI in hospitals.
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According to recruitment ads posted on Boss Zhipin, one of China's largest hiring websites,
DeepSeek is offering 500 yuan (US$70) per day for interns who can work four days a week to label medical data for applications involving 'advanced auxiliary diagnosis' tools. The jobs are based in Beijing.
The intern roles are not listed on DeepSeek's official WeChat hiring channel. It is the first time that DeepSeek has publicly mentioned the need for 'medical data' in data labelling.
The hiring notice on Boss said applicants should have medical backgrounds, and either be undergraduates in their fourth year or have a master's degree. As well, they need experience in using large language models (LLMs), and should be able to write Python code and write prompts for large AI models.
DeepSeek did not immediately reply to a request for comment.
A nurse moves a bed through a corridor at a hospital in Duan Yao autonomous county in Guangxi region, China, January 9, 2025. Photo: Reuters
The move comes as Chinese hospitals embrace open-source AI models from DeepSeek to generate diagnoses and prescriptions. As of March, at least 300 hospitals in China have started using DeepSeek's LLMs in clinical diagnostics and medical decision support.
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