The rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) has pushed up the salaries of industry talents to staggering levels.
When many college graduates are still cheering for the annual salary of 100,000 yuan, the annual salary of the hot AI majors has reached 300,000 to 500,000 yuan, and it is likely to rise to 800,000 yuan after three or five years. However, this price is mainly aimed at graduate students.
This is what Yicai reporters learned about the market recently at the 19th China International High-tech Achievement Fair Talent and Intelligence Exchange Conference (hereinafter referred to as the "Talent High-tech Fair"). At this high-tech talent fair held in Shenzhen, there are many jobs with an annual salary of more than 300,000 yuan. However, the salary of AI jobs is still outstanding and very eye-catching.
High salaries do not mean that job seekers are flocking, and very few AI talents went to the scene that day to apply. Many recruiters at the scene said that fresh graduates do not need to go to the field to find jobs at all, and companies will find them early through mentors or laboratories; and for those experienced R&D talents, headhunters will also take the initiative to contact them.
Annual salary throws off a lot of peers
Artificial intelligence is a strategic technology leading the future.
At the national "two sessions" in March 2017, "artificial intelligence" was officially written into the government work report for the first time. The report of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China pointed out that it is necessary to promote the deep integration of artificial intelligence and the real economy.
On November 15th, the Ministry of Science and Technology held a new generation artificial intelligence development plan and major scientific and technological project kick-off meeting. At the meeting, the establishment of a new generation artificial intelligence development plan promotion office was announced, which consists of 15 departments including the Ministry of Science and Technology, the National Development and Reform Commission, and the Ministry of Finance. .
The popularity of artificial intelligence can be seen at the talent high-tech fair. At the meeting, many technology recruiting companies have set up AI positions, or expanded their AI talent pool, or hoped to find a leader to build an AI team.
The conference was held on November 16 and lasted for two days. It was intended to attract high-end talents. 53 well-known companies and 10 well-known headhunting companies at home and abroad were screened for on-site recruitment, including Huawei, BGI, Ping An Group, etc., among which national-level high-tech enterprises account for as high as 70%.
"This time we plan to recruit 40 AI R&D personnel, mainly from computer graduates," Liu Mingzhuo, vice president of Coolpad Group Co., Ltd., one of the recruiters, told Yicai.com, "The salary we offer is the best in China. The company’s standards. For example, the annual salary of fresh graduates is 300,000 to 500,000 yuan; in addition, we are a listed company, and we will also offer options to motivate talents.”
The above graduates refer to masters and doctorates. These freshly "baked" graduates will be paid very handsomely after working for a few years.
These Internet companies can be said to be competing with global competitors for cutting-edge AI talents. According to Goldman Sachs' previous statistics, Baidu's annual salary for AI talents in machine learning is US$126,000. If the annual dividends and rights and interests are counted, it will be as much as US$220,000 (about 1.46 million yuan); and Amazon, Google, Compared with the five major international giants such as Microsoft, Apple and Facebook, it ranks third, after Facebook's $273,000 and Microsoft's $244,000.
Li Shangkun added that there are still two types of companies that are recruiting AI talents: one is a robotics company, which has physical products, recruiting positions in natural language, etc.; the other is a company specializing in algorithms and providing software knowledge.
"Million-level" talent gap
Although the job fair that day was crowded, there were not many job seekers who came to apply for AI jobs. The booths of many technology companies were crowded with job seekers for other positions.
Mr. Zhang, who is in his 30s, is quite rare among the young job-seekers. On the morning of the 16th, he stopped by the booth of a technology company and sat down to discuss AI jobs with recruiters. After about ten minutes, he left in frustration. He laughed at himself to reporters. He has a bachelor's degree and has little relevant work experience. Maybe the recruiter thinks that he is not qualified enough.
Most of the business people interviewed by Yicai said that AI professionals are not easy to recruit. They usually contact relevant universities and tutors half a year in advance, and the selection of candidates is dazzling.
There are many monks and few porridges, and fresh graduates in AI research will naturally have no worries about finding jobs and do not have to rush on the job fair site; and those experienced AI R&D talents will also wait for headhunters to come to the door.
Unlike the United States, the origin of AI, there are fewer colleges and universities offering artificial intelligence courses in China, the teaching system has just started, and the quantity and quality of talent supply cannot keep up with the demand.
In July this year, Wu Fei, deputy dean of the School of Computer Science of Zhejiang University and director of the Institute of Artificial Intelligence of Zhejiang University, said in an interview with the media that at present, there is no artificial intelligence major in domestic undergraduates, and enrollment is mainly at the postgraduate level.
In July this year, the "Global AI Talent Report" was released. This report based on LinkedIn data shows that as of the first quarter of 2017, the number of technical talents in the global AI field exceeded 1.9 million, of which the total number of related talents in the United States exceeded 850,000, and the total number of related talents in China also exceeded 50,000.
Yu Dian, a researcher at Tencent Research Institute, told Yicai.com that there have been tens of thousands of graduates in the AI field in China so far. But this figure is far from meeting the market demand, because the talent gap in the market is in the millions.
Companies cannot compete for AI talents on the spot, but the battle behind them has already started, especially between emerging companies and powerful large companies.
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A robotics company in Shenzhen has offered a price of 300,000 to 700,000 yuan per year for R&D talents in the AI direction. Li Shaoming, a senior recruiter of the company, told the First Financial Reporter that the price includes salary and year-end bonus. It is aimed at fresh graduates with a master's degree or above and previous graduates. Fresh graduates can get at least 300,000 yuan, and the highest is 500,000 yuan. Depends on individual ability.
Li Shangkun said that four years ago, some companies began to contact them to seek AI talents, but the last two years have been the blowout period of AI talent demand. After 3 to 5 years, the dilemma that one person cannot find AI jobs will be alleviated.
"With the increase in the number of majors and graduates set up by relevant universities, there will be more low-end talents in the AI field, but high-end talents are still difficult to recruit." Li Shangkun said, "Although many industries are in urgent need of high-end talents, the AI field is particularly obvious. , because it involves logical thinking, etc., the threshold is very high.”
In general, China's AI talents cannot be compared with the United States in terms of number or experience. The demand for low-end AI talents can be quickly resolved, but high-end talents may still be hard to find.
Article source: China Education Network