It started as a side project. Now it's coming for Anthropic's most prized product.
Both jobs are based in Beijing.
Sadly for Western devs praising the remote work gospel, the company requires being based in the capital of China specifically. It’s not good enough to live in even Hangzhou, where High-Flyer, the hedge fund behind DeepSeek, was founded or Shenzhen, which is the Silicon Valley of China.
They want someone in Beijing—the symbolic and political capital of Chinese tech ambition, and the city where the government's relationship with its AI industry is the most direct, the most deliberate, and the most closely watched by Washington.
"You can call it DeepSeek Code or something," Chen wrote in the post, adding laughing emojis as if the implications weren't serious at all.
They are.
We’re hiring! DeepSeek is forming a new Harness team to build Code Harness from the ground up—may be you can call it DeepSeek Code or something like this hhh🤣🤣🤣
Why tools matter as much as the modelsDuring the gold rush some became rich digging for gold, others got rich selling shovels. Deepseek wants to play both sides.
The V4 lineup, released on April 24, comes in two flavors. V4 Flash—the workhorse—is built for speed and handles agentic tasks at $0.14 per million input tokens. (Tokens are the most basic unit of information handled by large language models.) V4 Pro, the more capable tier, runs at $0.435 per million tokens during an introductory promotion running through May 31. Claude Opus 4.7, Anthropic's flagship, runs at $15 per million input tokens. That’s a major budget difference for teams running continuous, loop-heavy agent pipelines.
The Code Harness move is about owning the full stack. Building a harness means DeepSeek would control the interface developers actually see and interact with—the checkpoints, the terminal commands, the rollback features, the integrations. That's where user loyalty lives and likely where the money follows.
No launch date has been announced—but the job information is there in case you’re interested, speak Chinese, and are willing to work out of Beijing.
