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Author | Huang Yu
Wallstreet News has learned that Tencent recently launched a large-scale recruitment for its &#34;Lobster System&#34; products and has been heavily promoting them on WeChat.
The recruitment positions are all within Tencent's CSIG (Cloud and Smart Industries Group) and involve products such as WorkBuddy, QClaw, and Tencent Lighthouse. Specific positions include Intelligent Agent User Growth Operations Manager, Data Engineering Leader, Full-Stack Development Engineer, Reinforcement Learning Algorithm Researcher, and AI-Native Product Manager.
Against the backdrop of Tencent's recent rapid launch of the &#34;Lobster Product Matrix,&#34; this swift increase in AI Agent-related talent recruitment undoubtedly further proves Tencent's determination to develop AI Agent products.
It is worth noting that when Tencent's AI assistant Yuanbao was first launched, it did not conduct such high-profile external talent recruitment.
Tencent is arguably the most active company responding to this wave of &#34;lobster&#34; development.
Since March, they have launched a matrix of product plans centered around &#34;Lobster,&#34; calling themselves the &#34;Lobster Task Force.&#34; This product matrix not only covers novice users but also targets hardcore developers and large enterprises.
Pony Ma personally promoted Tencent's &#34;Lobster Package,&#34; stating, &#34;Self-developed Lobster, local shrimp, cloud shrimp, enterprise shrimp, cloud desktop shrimp, secure isolated shrimp house, cloud security guard, knowledge base... and a batch of products are coming soon.&#34;
This is one of the rare occasions Pony Ma has personally endorsed his company's AI products during this wave of large AI model development.
On a recent earnings call, Pony Ma also publicly discussed his thoughts on &#34;raising lobsters&#34; for the first time, believing that &#34;Lobster&#34; is a decentralized entry point that can better leverage Tencent's resource advantages, enable collaboration across various fronts, and provide inspiration for the WeChat Agent currently under development.
Tencent Senior Executive Vice President and CEO of CSIG, Tang Daosheng, recently stated that the current application paradigm for artificial intelligence is shifting from &#34;Chatbot&#34; to &#34;AI Agent.&#34; AI implementation is not just an algorithm problem but an engineering problem – as the capability gap between mainstream large models gradually narrows, companies will compete not on &#34;who has the stronger model&#34; but on &#34;who can best utilize models through engineering.&#34;
In Tang Daosheng's view, in the future, every individual and every enterprise will be able to quickly build their own exclusive intelligent agent applications using standardized tools, jointly constructing a decentralized and highly prosperous Agent ecosystem.
In fact, in this AI race, Tencent, which was once questioned by the outside world for &#34;falling behind,&#34; has quietly accelerated its efforts since the end of last year, including talent acquisition and organizational adjustments and upgrades in AI.
Tencent President Martin Lau pointed out that in the past few months, Tencent has intensively upgraded its organization and restructured workflows for its Hunyuan large model team, while also rebuilding the entire pre-training and reinforcement learning infrastructure, and further improving data quality.
Through a series of adjustments, Tencent hopes to create a more intelligent model and accelerate the overall iteration speed.
In terms of talent recruitment, while bringing in top talent like former OpenAI researcher Yao Shunyu at the end of last year, there are also reports that Tencent is offering double salaries to top researchers in ByteDance's AI department (especially in large models and multimodal teams), and has successfully recruited some key personnel.
On the Q3 earnings call last year, Martin Lau also pointed out that Tencent is actually hiring more top talent, especially in research, to supplement its existing engineering teams.
Tencent's recruitment personnel revealed that in the internship positions opened this year, technical roles have expanded by 36%, product roles by 39%, and AI-related positions have also seen significant expansion. Furthermore, to embrace AI changes, an &#34;AI Application Skills Module&#34; has been added to resume submissions.
&#34;We look forward to more partners with 'AI Native' thinking joining us,&#34; said the Tencent recruitment representative.
At this critical juncture in the competition for AI technological discourse, tech giants are vying for AI talent with an almost arms-race-like intensity.
An insider from a leading video generation company told Wallstreet News that the internal OA system currently does not disclose the list of AI technology teams, precisely to prevent poaching by other companies.
Hudson, a talent solutions provider, recently released its &#34;2025 Talent Trends Report,&#34; indicating that breakthrough advancements in AI have pushed talent demand to new heights, with the competition for high-end AI talent entering a white-hot stage and the scarcity of top talent further intensifying.
Against this backdrop, top AI talent holds significant pricing power.
According to Hudson data, the top 20% of AI talent in the industry can see salary increases of 30%-50% when changing jobs. Top researchers and engineers in reinforcement learning are particularly sought after by leading companies. Authors who have published papers in top international journals hold a dominant position in the talent market, with their bargaining power far exceeding that of other competitors.

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- Tencent has initiated a significant recruitment drive for its "Lobster" product line, particularly within its CSIG sector, targeting roles to support AI Agent development.  
- CEO Ma Huateng highlighted the importance of these products as decentralized entry points that leverage Tencent's resources and inspire ongoing developments such as the WeChat Agent.  
- The competition for AI talent intensifies, with notable salary increases for top experts, as companies seek to enhance their capabilities and adapt to the evolving AI landscape.

Tencent's "Lobster System" Begins Aggressively Recruiting Talent