Weekly digest
Week of 15 September 2025
11 new roles this week across 7 companies; the biggest movers: OpenAI (+4), Mercor (+2).
Research
- Forward Deployed Research Scientist (Biology) — Goodfire Goodfire is a San Francisco-based public benefit corporation focused on AI interpretability and safety
- Applied Researcher, Audio — Cartesia Real-time speech and transcription models for voice agents with low-latency State Space Model architecture
Infrastructure
- Infrastructure Engineer — Mercor Marketplace connecting domain experts with AI companies for task evaluation and model benchmarking
- Security Engineer, Detection and Response — OpenAI Develops AI systems including large language models like ChatGPT for research and commercial use
- Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure - Research — OpenAI
- Quality Systems Engineer — Neuralink Develops implantable brain-computer interfaces enabling paralyzed individuals to control devices through thoug
Software
- Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Applied AI) — Perplexity AI-powered answer engine that provides conversational, source-backed responses to user queries
- Software Engineer, Agents — Mercor
- AI Deployment Engineer, Gov — OpenAI
- Forward Deployed Engineer - Tokyo — OpenAI
- Mobile Android Engineer — xAI Develops Grok, an AI platform offering reasoning, code, voice, image, and video capabilities through a unified
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