Visitors interact with a humanoid robot from Bank of Communications during the 2025 World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai on July 27. HE XIAOXIAO/FOR CHINA DAILY
Several Chinese lenders have recently launched special recruitment programs targeting high-level artificial intelligence talent, accelerating their push into the financial AI arena. The trend underscores the banking sector's growing urgency to advance its digital and intelligent transformation.
The latest hiring drive focuses on core areas such as large language model development, AI application deployment and technology architecture planning. Entry requirements have been significantly raised, with most positions requiring candidates to hold PhD degrees from internationally renowned universities, possess work experience at major overseas institutions, and demonstrate expertise in LLM development, deep learning frameworks and other advanced AI technologies.
Yang Haiping, a researcher at the Shanghai-based SIFL Institute, said that the large-scale recruitment of top-tier AI talent is an important step for banks seeking to gain an early-mover advantage in AI applications and upgrade their digital finance strategies. The move will accelerate intelligent innovation in banking operations and management, reshape the industry's technological foundation and core competitiveness, and fundamentally change approaches to talent development in the sector.
