Weekly digest
Week of 13 October 2025
21 new roles this week across 9 companies; the biggest movers: Distyl AI (+6), OpenAI (+5), xAI (+3).
Research
- Research Engineer, RL Engineering — Anthropic Develops Claude, an AI assistant, with research focused on AI safety and alignment
- Applied AI Researcher, AI Systems — Distyl AI Builds customized generative AI systems and operating platforms for enterprise transformation
- Applied AI Researcher, Benchmarking — Distyl AI
- Applied AI Researcher, Post-Training — Distyl AI
- Applied AI Researcher, System Discovery — Distyl AI
- Applied AI Researcher, System Self-Construction — Distyl AI
- Applied AI Researcher, System Self-Improvement — Distyl AI
ML engineering
- Training Performance Engineer — OpenAI Develops AI systems including large language models like ChatGPT for research and commercial use
Infrastructure
Data
- Data Scientist — Lovable AI platform that generates production-ready web applications and websites from natural language descriptions
Software
- Staff+ Software Engineer, Safeguards — Anthropic
- Backend Software Engineer, Gov — OpenAI
- Connectivity Software Engineer, Consumer Devices — OpenAI
- Software Engineer - Privacy & Compliance — OpenAI
- Software Engineer - Networking Software and Services — xAI Develops Grok, an AI platform offering reasoning, code, voice, image, and video capabilities through a unified
Hardware
- Engineer - Structures — Saronic Saronic Technologies develops advanced autonomous surface vessels for naval and maritime applications
- Prototype & Design Specialist — Neuralink Develops implantable brain-computer interfaces enabling paralyzed individuals to control devices through thoug
- Post-Silicon Validation Engineer — Etched Etched.ai is a technology startup developing specialized hardware for large language model (LLM) inference
Go-to-market
- Account Manager, Commercial (North America) — fal Serverless GPU platform for deploying and fine-tuning generative AI models at scale
- Client Account Manager — xAI
- Support Agent, X Money — xAI
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