Chinese AI firms recruit engineers in Silicon Valley and Seattle
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MiniMax and Moonshot AI are recruiting engineers in Silicon Valley and Seattle, according to Rest of World.
MiniMax has about 16 openings in San Francisco. The report says ByteDance's Seed offers researchers who hold OpenAI or Anthropic offers pay 1.5 times higher than those offers.
Rest of World reports that Chinese firms still lag far behind U.S. labs on pay. Experts it cites say the gap makes recruiting top talent difficult; MiniMax paid about $203,000 per employee in 2025.
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AIChinese AI companies MiniMax and Moonshot AI are recruiting engineers in Silicon Valley and Seattle, including about 16 MiniMax openings in San Francisco. ByteDance's Seed reportedly offers competing offers 1.5 times higher to researchers with OpenAI or Anthropic offers, though Chinese firms still lag far behind U.S. labs on pay. Experts say the Chinese companies' pay gap, with MiniMax paying about $203,000 per employee in 2025, makes recruiting top talent difficult.
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