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Year-round recruiting and the 2026 Deep Eye summer research program.

FreedomAI is recruiting research assistant professors, postdocs, PhD students, MPhil students, research assistants, visiting students, and engineers year-round. We welcome people who want to build open, useful, and ambitious AI systems with real-world impact.

Large language models Multimodal AI Complex reasoning AI agents Medical and education AI Social simulation AI think tank
Contact wangbenyou@cuhk.edu.cn Download 2026 Summer PDF Deep Eye Consultation

Open Positions

PhD, MPhil, and visiting students

For students who want intensive project-based research training, open-source releases, papers, and real-world deployment experience.

Postdocs and research assistant professors

For independent researchers who can lead frontier AI programs, mentor students, and turn ideas into systems, papers, and deployed products.

Research assistants and engineers

For builders who enjoy datasets, models, evaluation, infrastructure, demos, and keeping research systems reproducible.

Deep Eye Research Program 2026

Shenzhen Loop Area Institute 2026 Deep Eye summer research program

For outstanding undergraduate and master students interested in the 2027 Shenzhen Loop Area Institute joint-training PhD pathway.

  • Four-week research project with FreedomAI and Shenzhen Loop Area Institute mentorship.
  • Excellent performance can help lock in early admission opportunities for the Shenzhen Loop Area Institute program.
  • Free accommodation during the program, campus meal vouchers, and transportation subsidy for students from outside Shenzhen.
  • Interview-based recommendation support is available for suitable applicants.
Program dates July 13, 2026 to August 9, 2026; extendable to August 16, 2026.
Application deadline June 25, 2026.
Consultation wangbenyou@cuhk.edu.cn or externalaffairs@slai.edu.cn.

Why FreedomAI

Strong research resources

  • CUHK-Shenzhen PhD degree with global recognition.
  • Shenzhen Loop Area Institute joint-training resources, strong GPU support, and generous student support.
  • Project leads at Shenzhen Loop Area Institute with access to substantial research and engineering resources.

Industry and deployment access

  • Close collaboration with Huawei, Qwen, Tencent, MiniMax, Kimi, Ant Group, Ubiquant, and other partners.
  • Encouragement for senior PhD internships, startup exploration, and deploying AI into real-world systems.
  • Medical AI systems connected to hospitals, community healthcare, multilingual medicine, and clinical evaluation.

Active team culture

  • Friendly, high-energy research atmosphere with mentorship from senior students to newcomers.
  • Members grow through real projects, open-source releases, and paper ownership.
  • Sports, camps, night talks, and a strong belief that top research needs passion for both life and freedom.

What You Can Build Here

Open AI systems

FreedomIntelligence projects have received more than ten thousand GitHub stars, with Hugging Face model and dataset downloads reaching million-scale community usage.

Medical AI with real users

HuatuoGPT has been connected to 11 public hospitals and 186 community healthcare centers in Longgang, Shenzhen, serving a population-scale medical AI setting.

Frontier research programs

Representative directions include HuatuoGPT, CMB and LiveClin, Apollo multilingual medical AI, AceGPT, ORLM, AIMO-style reasoning, TwinMarket, and Economic World Models.

Research Life and Impact

FreedomIntelligence open-source repositories
Open-source repositories, models, datasets, and benchmarks are a core part of the team culture.
HuatuoGPT deployment in Longgang
We encourage research that leaves the paper and becomes useful in hospitals, education, finance, and public-interest systems.
FreedomAI camp and bonfire gathering
Work hard and play harder: we want a team that grows through both rigorous research and real human connection.

To apply or ask about openings, send your CV, transcript if available, representative project or paper links, and a short note about your research interests to wangbenyou@cuhk.edu.cn. For Deep Eye program consultation, contact externalaffairs@slai.edu.cn.